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John Lewis Romer (born 30 September 1941, in Surrey, England) is a British Egyptologist, historian and archaeologist.He has created and appeared in many TV archaeology series, including Romer's Egypt, Ancient Lives, Testament, The Seven Wonders of the World, Byzantium: The Lost Empire and Great Excavations: The Story of Archaeology.
Robert Brier (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər /; born December 13, 1943) is an American Egyptologist specializing in paleopathology.A senior research fellow at Long Island University/LIU Post, he has researched and published on mummies and the mummification process and has appeared in many Discovery Civilization, TLC Network, and National Geographic documentaries, primarily on ancient Egypt.
Egyptology (from Egypt and Greek-λογία, -logia; Arabic: علم المصريات) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history , language , literature , religion , architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the 4th century AD.
Television shows set in ancient Egypt (11 P) Pages in category "Television series about the history of Egypt" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
In 1884–85 he organized and financed excavations in Wadi Hammamat, followed by the research at Tell el-Maskhuta in 1888–89. In the course of the following two decades, he traveled to Egypt more than sixty times and brought back an enormous collection of more than 6,000 ancient Egyptian antiquities, including such priceless relics as the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Story of Wenamun ...
Mark Lehner. Mark Lehner (born 1950 in Dakota [citation needed]) is an American archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt.He is the director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) and has appeared in numerous television documentaries.
The first episode introduces ancient Egypt, from its prehistoric era to its Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. Subjects featured include Paleolithic petroglyphs in Qurta; the development of Egyptian gods and goddesses such as Hathor; the rise of settlements along the Nile River like Faiyum and Qena; mummification and the Gebelein predynastic mummies; early calendars and tax records; the ...
Erman's pupils include James Henry Breasted, America's first Professor of Egyptology with his numerous works including his History of Egypt from the Earliest Times Down to the Persian Conquest (1905) and Georg Steindorff's little Koptische Grammatik (1894, ed. 1904), improving greatly on Stern's standard work in regard to phonology and the relationship of Coptic forms to Egyptian, and Sethe's ...