Quotes About Egyptology

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile.

Nismo ni fizi?ari, ni metafizi?ari: moramo da budemo egiptolozi. ... Ne postoje ni stvari, ni duhovi, postoje samo tela: astralna tela, biljna tela. Biologija bi bila u pravu kad bi znala da su tela sama u sebi ve? jezik.

Egyptologic"—i.e. that special form of reasoning, with a built-in double standard, deployed only by Egyptologists.

God!...If only I had not read so much Egyptology before coming to this land which is the fountain of all darkness and terror!

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are so many tombs and mummies that the field of Egyptology really is about the science and the work of conserving and preserving these artifacts.