How Do I Become an Egyptologist?

Egyptology (English: Egyptology; Arabic: ) is a discipline that studies the language, writing, history, culture and art of ancient Egyptian civilization. Including archeology, history, linguistics, paleography, cultural anthropology, literary history, religious history, art history, and papyrus studies, it also involves the history of architecture, technology, and medical history. The Western world has had a strong interest in Egyptian civilization since the ancient Greek and Roman period. After the Renaissance, academic discussions, investigations, and data collection increased day by day, and finally developed into the modern humanities discipline of Egyptology. Its formation was marked by the successful reading of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by French scholar Shang Boliang in 1822. In the middle of the 20th century, the interest in ancient Egyptian civilization gradually expanded to the world, and the study of Egyptian studies by Chinese scholars also started and developed ^[1] .

Egyptology is an important subject in world archeology and world history research. Further exploration with modern scientific methods and electronic instruments

At present, there are institutions or scholars of Egyptian studies in more than 100 countries in the world. Egyptology is the largest in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, followed by Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Israel, Poland, and the Netherlands. Each of these countries has its own academic expertise and characteristics, such as the United States in the study of ancient Egyptian historical documents, Germany in the language, the British in archeology, Switzerland in religion, each has major breakthroughs.

At present, almost all the well-known comprehensive universities in the world have departments of Egyptology or offer courses in Egyptology, such as University of London, University of Paris, University of Göttingen, University of Tübingen, University of Heidelberg, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Yale University, Cairo University, etc. These universities are strong and have become centers of teaching and research in Egyptology today. Full-time Egyptian research structures, such as the German Oriental Research Association, the French Oriental Archaeological Institute, the Egyptian British Archaeological School, and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, etc., have long enjoyed a high reputation in the international Egyptian academic community for their old qualifications and high research level. ^[37]

Tourists who pour into the hometown of the pyramid each year to find places of interest have become one of the main sources of foreign exchange income for the Egyptian national economy. The above situation is sufficient proof of the keen interest of the people of all countries in ancient Egyptian culture, which is the charm of ancient Egyptian civilization itself. It can be said that the ancient Egyptian civilization belongs to all human beings, and the research results of Egyptology have become the common cultural wealth of all human beings. ^[37]