Scholars have studied Egyptology for centuries but archaeologists have only paid serious attention to the rest of the continent in more recent times.

Coon matriculated to Harvard, where he studied Egyptology with George Reisner.

The boys loved that - they had been studying Egyptology at school, and seeing it all live, as it were, really impressed them.

Dad knows more about that than any of us because this last fortnight he's been studying Egyptology as though he's going to take a degree in it.

He studied Egyptology at the Pontifical Biblical Institute (1951-1955).

He studied Egyptology and medieval history, before teaching French, history and computer programming.

There in 1819 he met the antiquarian Sir William Gell and resolved to study Egyptology.

He has studied Law, Egyptology, and the Italian language.

He went on to study Spanish, South American Studies and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.

He went on to study Egyptology at the University of Oxford.