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Egyptology
Egyptology represents the scientific schoolwork
of Ancient Egypt and Egyptianian antiquities plus
is a regional and thematic branch of the bigger
disciplines of Ancient History and Archaeology.
A practitioner of the discipline is identified
as an "Egyptologist".
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Egyptology investigates the variety of Ancient
Egyptian culture (language, literature, history,
art, religion, economics, and ethics) as of the
5th millennium BC up to the end of Roman rule
in the 4th century AD.
Modern Egyptology (as contrasting to an antiquarian
interest in the land of Egypt) is in general perceived
as beginning in the year 1822, when Jean-François
Champollion announced his universal decipherement
of the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics for the
first time, employing the Rosetta Stone as his
most important aid. With subsequently ever-increasing
knowledge of Egyptian writing plus language, the
study of Ancient Egyptian civilization was able
to continue with greater academic rigor and with
all the added impetus that understanding of the
written sources was able to engender. |
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