Meaning of Ægyptologist | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“If, however, any two or three gentlemen, whose general knowledge of languages and of their analogies is such as to qualify them for the office, will undertake to be judges, I am ready to meet any Ægyptologist of the Coptic school whom Chevalier Bunsen may select, and to submit our respective systems of explaining old Egyptian texts to their decision.”

“It is rather curious to find him thus (in conformity with the idea of the essential inferiority of the Negro races, which is unfortunately not only entertained as a matter of speculation, but practically acted on in the United States) fundamentally isolating the African races from the Asiatic, at the very time when the most distinguished Ægyptologists are coming to the conclusion, that the Egyptian race, which was decidedly African in its physical conformation, was derived from an Asiatic stock, as seems proved by the glottological researches of Bunsen and others.”

“Warburton believed to have found the origin, and to have traced the progress of symbolic figures, as they gradually became letters. His supposition was correct, but he had no means of proving it so clearly as later Ægyptologists have done.”

“For instances of varying interpretations of the monumental hieroglyphics, among even the ablest Ægyptologists, Champollion, Rosellini, &c.,[…]”

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