Are you a Dr. of Egyptology?

Professor of Archeology <> Dr. of Egyptology
How many professors of Archeology are not Archeologist at all?
How many Dr. of Egyptology have nothing to do with being an Egyptologist?

Archeologist and Egyptologist are detectives.
Archeologist for most part study artifacts of animals or people (their cultures) of the past.
The Archeologist are taught strict procedures for examinations, so they do not damage potential artifacts in their "dig" ... to make sure what they find remains in tact.
Egyptologist are a combination of archeologist and anthropologist which specialize on investigating the ancient people and culture of Egypt.

To be a Dr. of Egyptology you need not investigate, prove or verify any thing. To be a Dr. of Egyptology you need only read a whole bunch others have written.
After you have paid big bucks to go to universities to have them push their selected parrot information.. you get a degree... Now you are one who learned information that others had researched.
For the Dr. of Egyptology status to kick in, you then get a job in a university to parrot the information that the parrot (Dr. of Egyptology) inhaled to make them a Dr.

How much interest does the common population have in Egyptology?

Advertisers spend thousands of dollars a minute to put their Ads on TV. The TV stations must obtain programs that millions of people will watch. If you have cable or satellite, how many times a month to they run Egyptology documentaries?

There are literally millions of people all over the world who are fascinated by ancient Egypt. Millions of dollars spent on books, millions of dollars spent in archeology, millions of dollars spent in universities.
One clue of the interest of the ordinary population is the amount of times Egyptology programs are shown on TV stations around the world.

If you are one of those who watch these programs, if you read books, if you discuss these things on the internet or perhaps have your own Egyptology or Web site, then join the Egyptology Buffs.

Now the question is are you a Junior Woodchuck Egyptologist?
The millions of us will never get close to a dig, but indeed we can be more than parrots... parrot says.. I parrot the parrot?

Howard Carter is famous for the discovery of King Tuts discovery? Well it was the money of a rich guy who got people looking there. There were hundreds of Egyptian workers (for a couple dollars a week) digging, sifting and carrying tons of dirt away in baskets.
It was an Egyptian worker who stumbled up on the mouth of the entrance. Have you ever heard his name?
A rich man's bank roll, a poor Egyptian labor who found it and we read that Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tut?

Carter was more like a foreman who organized how the dig would proceed. The discover of Tut's tomb was a team effort, not any single man.

An Egyptologist is more than a parrot, they are detectives. Egyptians are people who investigate information to verify it's source and it's validity... Detectives.
Like the British who got credit for the discovery of Tut's tomb, we junior woodchuck Egyptologist need not get our hands dirty ... and like the Egyptians who carried tons of dirt away in baskets, we need no fame for what we find.

We indeed can be junior wood chuck Egyptologist. We can examine the artifacts found by the laborers and we can examine the claims of those who get full credit for those finds.
We can also examine the claims of those who found nothing, took no credit nor was even born when those artifacts were discovered.

The internet archeologist can verify
Where, when, who found what
What the claims are and what the contradictions are.

Recently an "Egyptologist" looking for fame declared they identified the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut because an X-ray of the canopic jar had a tooth that matched a missing tooth in a mummy. I never heard of them putting teeth, chewing gum or remote controls in those canopic jars?  I thought the only thing they put in those Canopic Jar were the organs of the person being mummified?

Science.. detective speculation is not based on what might be, what could be. All theories must have evidence to support them.

It is not for us to draw any conclusion, but to present all factual evidence, all arguments for and against any theory.

We are people with investigative minds and our field of interest is Egyptology.
We are junior wood chuck Egyptologist.