Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.
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.
Commenced operations in the Valley of the Kings.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
Choosing an unconventional career path - I am not a traditional Egyptologist by any means. I found what I love, and I have stuck with it.
I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.
Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.
I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.
People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.
I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.
I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never wavered.
