What to Study Most full-time Egyptological jobs require that you have a Ph.D. in Egyptology, or be well on your way toward obtaining one. Training in Egyptology for a doctoral degree can take at least eight years of university, both undergraduate and graduate programs, and often much longer. Many university programs offer the opportunity to specialize either in Egyptian language or in art and archaeology of ancient Egypt. If you are studying at a university that allows you to specialize either in archaeology or Egyptian language you should take some courses in both fields regardless of the field in which you ultimately decide to specialize. For high school students interested in becoming Egyptologists, you should learn French and German if available, take history and other humanities classes, and get a good grounding in sciences, computing, and courses to improve your writing and research skills, in short, take all the college prep courses you can. This will depend a great deal on what is available in your local high school system. Read all that you can get on various aspects of ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East, including history, archaeology, art, religion and literature. At university, as an undergraduate, you should follow a liberal arts program. Very few universities offer undergraduate degrees in Egyptology, but such a degree is not required for those wishing to do a higher degree in Egyptology. However, at an undergraduate level, courses in art history, particularly ancient art will be helpful. You should also take courses in social sciences, especially ancient history, anthropology and archaeology. Some universities offer interdisciplinary programs in area studies and if the Eastern Mediterranean is offered in such a program it is a good way to get a wide range of background courses complimentary to Egyptology. Languages form the foundation of any Egyptologists knowledge: a reading knowledge of French and German are essential for advanced research in Egyptology, and you should take courses in these languages if you do not already have these skills. If you hope to eventually do archaeological work in Egypt, learning Arabic, either the classical form or the Egyptian dialect, will help. Greek or another ancient Near Eastern language may also be helpful for those interested in comparative work or specializing in the later periods of ancient Egyptian history. Egyptologists specialize either in language or archaeology, although all must take at least some courses in both areas. As a specialist in the ancient Egyptian language, you will need to take courses in the various forms of the language (Old, Middle and Late Egyptian in both hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts, Demotic, and Coptic). If you decide to specialize in Egyptian archaeology, courses on art and architecture of ancient Egypt in different periods will be needed. Having some training in another specialty of use to archaeology can often increase your marketability, so consider learning surveying, photography, or drawing. Where to Study The following is a list of weblinks to university programs that offer a specialization in Egyptology, arranged alphabetically by country. Australia Ancient History Department Macquarie University Sydney, NSW anchist.mq.edu.au/ Centre for Archaeology and Ancient History Monash University Melbourne arts.monash.edu.au/archaeology/ Austria Institut f�r �gyptologie Universit�t Wien univie.ac.at/egyptology Belgium Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven arts.kuleuven.be/ema/ Department of Egyptology Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven millennium.arts.kuleuven.ac.be/egyptology/ Institut Orientaliste Universit� Catholique de Louvain fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GLOR/EPO/Egypte/default.htm Facult� de Philosophie et Lettres Universit� Libre de Bruxelles ulb.ac.be/facs/philo/index.html Facult� de Philosophie et Lettres Universit� Libre de Li�ge ulg.ac.be/facphl/ Bulgaria Department of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies New Bulgarian University in Sofia nbu.bg/index.php?l=433 Canada Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations University of Toronto utoronto.ca/nmc Peoples Republic of China Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations North East Normal University Changchun vod.nenu.edu.cn/web/eindex.htm Czech Republic Egyptologicky �stav Univerzita Karlova prf.cuni.cz/ Denmark Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies University of Copenhagen hum.ku.dk/cni/ Egypt Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology American University in Cairo aucegypt.edu/academic/sape/Egy/Egyptology.htm Finland Department of Asian and African Studies University of Helsinki helsinki.fi/hum/aakkl/ France Ecole du Louvre Paris ecoledulouvre.fr/index2.html Institut de Papyrologie et dEgyptologie Universit� de Lille III univ-lille3.fr/portail/index.php?page=SciencesHistoriques Institut dEgyptologie V. Loret Universit� Lyon 2 mom.fr/ Sorbonne Egyptological Research Centre Universit� de Paris-Sorbonne paris4.sorbonne.fr/en/article.php3?id_article=127 Germany �gyptologisches Seminar Freie Universit�t Berlin fu-berlin.de/aegyptologie Seminar f�r Arch�ologie und Kulturgeschichte Nordostafrikas Humboldt-Universit�t zu Berlin www2.hu-berlin.de/aknoa/ Institut f�r �gyptologie Johannes-Gutenberg-Universit�t uni-mainz.de/FB/Philologie-III/aegypt/ Fachbereich Kunst- Orient- und Altertumswissenschaften Martin-Luther-Universit�t Halle Wittenberg orientarch.uni-halle.de Fachgebiet �gyptologie Philipps-Universit�t Marburg staff-uni-marburg.de/~aegypt/ �gyptologisches Seminar der Universit�t Bonn Universit�t Bonn philfak.uni-bonn.de/Philfak/aegypt/ Seminar f�r �gyptologie und Koptologie Universit�t G�ttingen gwdg.de/~uhak/ Arch�ologisches Institut �gyptologie Universit�t Hamburg uni-hamburg.de/Studium/index_e.html �gyptologisches Institut Universit�t Heidelberg ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/fachref/aegypt/welcome.htm Seminar f�r �gyptologie Universit�t zu K�ln uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/aegypt/index-page.html �gyptologisches Institut �gyptisches Museum Universit�t Leipzig uni-leipzig.de/~egypt/Institutshomepage/start.htm Institut f�r �gyptologie Universit�t M�nchen fak12.uni-muenchen.de/aegyp/index.html Abteilung �gyptologie Universit�t Trier �gyptologisches Institut Universit�t T�bingen uni-tuebingen.de/aegyptologie/ Institut f�r �gyptologie Universit�t W�rzburg uni-wuerzburg.de/aegyptologie Institut f�r �gyptologie und Koptologie Westf�lische Wilhelms-Universit�t uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/studium/stud-agy.htm Hungary Department of Egyptology E�tv�s Lor�nd University Budapest elte.hu/index_noflash.html Israel Department of Egyptology The Hebrew University Jerusalem huji.ac.il/huji/eng/ Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations Tel Aviv University tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/index.html Italy Pontificio Istituto Biblico Roma biblico.it/ Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche Sezione Egittologia Universit� di Pisa egittologia.unipi.it/ Universit� degli studi di Roma La Sapeinza Roma uniroma1.it/ Japan Institute of Egyptology Waseda University Tokyo waseda.ac.jp/projects/egypt/index-E.html The Netherlands Languages and Cultures of the Middle East University of Groningen odur.let.rug.nl/mes/profile/vak.htm Talen en Culturen van het Nabije Oosten (TCNO) Faculteit der Letteren University of Leiden letteren.leidenuniv.nl/ New Zealand Department of Classics and Ancient History University of Auckland New Zealand arts.auckland.ac.nz/cla/Index.html Norway Department of Greek, Latin and Egyptology Universitet i Bergen hf.uib.no/i/klassisk/ Poland Intsitute of Archaeology Jagellonian University Krakow uj.edu.pl/Arch/ Department of Papyrology University of Warsaw papyrology.uw.edu.pl/ Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw archeo.uw.edu.pl/ Romania Facultatea de Istorie Universitatea Bucuresti Bucuresti unibuc.ro/en/catd_hciaa_en Russia Faculty of History Moscow State University ied.msu.ru/faculties/history.html Oriental Department University of St. Petersburg spbu.ru/ South Africa Department of Ancient Studies University of Stellenbosch sun.ac.za/as/ Spain Department de Prehist�ria, Hist�ria Antiga I Arqueologia University of Barcelona Barcelona ub.es/prehist/main.htm Facultad de Geograf�a e Historia Universidad de Seville Seville cica.es/aliens/dhaus/ Sweden Institutiones f�r Egyptologi Uppsala Universitet arkeologi.uu.se/egy/ Switzerland �gyptologisches Seminar Universit�t Basel unibas.ch/aegyptologie/ Department der Altertumswissenschaften Universitas Friburgensis unifr.ch/dbs/index.html D�partment des Sciences de lAntiquit� Universit� de Gen�ve unige.ch/lettres/or/plandetu/plegypte.html Orientalisches Seminar Universit�t Zurich ori.unizh.ch/Egyptology/egyptology.html Taiwan National Taiwan University Department of Archaeology and Anthropology Taipei ntu.edu.tw/new-version/english/main.html United Kingdom Faculty of Oriental Studies: Near and Middle East Oxford University orinst.ox.ac.uk/eanes/index.html Department of Ancient History and Archaeology University of Birmingham artsweb.bham.ac.uk/aha/ Department of Archaeology University of Bristol bris.ac.uk/Depts/Archaeology/index.html Faculty of Oriental Studies University of Cambridge oriental.cam.ac.uk/egypt1.html Institute of Archaeology University College, London ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/index.htm Department of Archeology University of Durham dur.ac.uk/Archaeology/ Department of Egyptology School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology University of Liverpool liv.ac.uk/sace/ Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology College of Arts and Humanities Swansea University Wales, UK swan.ac.uk/classics/ United States of America Department of Egyptology Brown University Providence, RI brown.edu/Departments/Egyptology/ Department of Near Eastern Studies Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD jhu.edu/%7Eneareast/ Institute of Fine Arts New York University nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/ Department of Near Eastern Studies University of California, Berkeley neareastern.berkeley.edu/ Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California, Los Angeles humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/egyptology/index.html Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Chicago humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/ Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology University of Memphis memphis.edu/egypt/ Department of Near Eastern Studies University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI umich.edu/%7Eneareast/ Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA sas.upenn.edu/ames/ Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Yale University New Haven, CT yale.edu/nelc/ Uruguay Instituto Uruguayo de Egiptologia Uruguayo reocities/Athens/Troy/8458
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