List of female Egyptologists

Last updated August 08, 2025

This is a list of female Egyptologists .

Name	Nationality	Description	Birth	Death
Barbara G. Adams	British		1945-02-19^[1]	2002-06-26^[1]
Solange Ashby	American	Egyptologist, Nubiologist, Archaeologist
Guillemette Andreu	French	Archaeologist	1948-08-03
Elise Baumgartel	German		1892-10-05	1975-10-28
Nathalie Beaux-Grimal	French		1960
Margaret Benson	British		1865-06-16	1916-05-13
Svetlana Yakovlevna Berzina	Soviet		1932-03-07	2012-04-24
Susanne Bickel	French		1960
Danielle Bonneau	French	Historian	1912^[2]	1992-10-26^[2]
Charlotte Booth	British	Archaeologist	1975-04-06
Käthe Bosse-Griffiths	Welsh-German	Curator	1910-06-16 1910-07-16^[3]	1998-04-04^[3]
Edda Bresciani	Italian	Archaeologist	1930-09-23	2020-11-29
Lyla Pinch Brock	Canadian
Mary Brodrick	British	Archaeologist	1858	1933-07-13
Winifred Brunton	British and South African	Artist	1880-05-06	1959-01-29
Betsy Bryan	American		1949
Agnès Cabrol	French		1964-07-12	2007-01-07
Amice Calverley	Canadian		1896-04-09	1959-04-10
Kara Cooney	American		1972-03-08
Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie	French		1899-09-26	1977-04-25
Colleen Darnell	American		1980
María del Carmen Pérez Díe	Spanish	Curator and director	1953
Debborah Donnelly	Canadian	Egyptian archaeologist	1965
Margaret Stefana Drower	British	1911	2012
Dorothy Eady	British Egyptian	(Amateur) Egyptologist	1904-01-16	1981-04-21
Amelia Edwards	British	Novelist, journalist, traveller	1831-06-07	1892-04-15
Joann Fletcher	British		1966-08-30
Renée Friedman	American	Egyptologist	1900s
Elizabeth Frood	New Zealand
Perla Fuscaldo	Argentinian		1941
Orly Goldwasser	Israeli		2000s
Janet Gourlay	British		1863	1912
Kate Bradbury Griffith	British		1854-08-26	1902-03-02
Nora Griffith	British		1870-12-07	1937-10-21
Sarah Israelit Groll	Israeli		1925	2007
Geraldine Harris	British		1951
Rexine Hummel	Canadian	Egyptologist, ceramicist	1937
Salima Ikram	Pakistani		1965^[4]
Sonali Gupta	Indian
Hermine Hartleben	German		1846-06-02^[5]	1919-07-18^[5]
Sally Katary	Canadian	Egyptologist, professor	1946	2016
Violette Lafleur	Canadian		1897	1965
Miriam Lichtheim	Israeli		1914-05-03	2004-03-27
Christine El Mahdy	British		1950-05-31	2008-02-07
Aurélia Masson-Berghoff	French
Barbara Mertz	American	Author	1927-09-29	2013-08-08
Béatrix Midant-Reynes	French
Herta Mohr	Austrian, Dutch	Egyptologist	1914-04-24	1945-04-15
Anna Anderson Morton	British		1876	1961
Rosalind Moss	British		1890-09-21^[6]	1990-04-22^[6]
Margaret Murray	British		1863-07-13^[7]^[8]	1963-11-13^[7]^[8]
Alessandra Nibbi	Italian	Archaeologist	1923-06-30^[9]	2007-01-15^[9]
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt	French		1913-11-17^[10]^[11]	2011-06-23^[12]^[10]^[11]
Laure Pantalacci	French	Historian
Sarah Parcak	American archaeologist
Delia Pemberton	British		1954
Hilda Petrie	British		1871-06-08	1956-11-23
Bertha Porter	British		1852^[13]^[14]	1941^[13]^[14]
Paule Posener-Kriéger	French		1925-04-18^[15]	1996-05-11^[15]
Janet Richards	American		1959
Nora E. Scott	American		1905-07-14	1994-04-04
Natalya Yevgenevna Semper	Russian		1911-08-23	1995-10-29
Danijela Stefanović	Serbian
Sara Yorke Stevenson	American	Archaeologist	1847-02-19	1921-11-14
Gertrud Thausing	Austrian	Head of the Institute for Egyptology and African Studies at the University of Vienna ^[16]	1905-12-27	1997-05-06
Elizabeth Thomas	American		1907-03-29	1986-11-28
Joyce Tyldesley		Archaeologist	1960-02-25^[17]
Hana Vymazalová	Czech		1978
Willeke Wendrich	American		1961-09-13
Marcelle Werbrouck	Belgian		1889-05-23	1959-08-01
Penelope Wilson	British
Hilde Zaloscer	Austrian	Coptologist	1903^[18]	1999^[18]
Christiane Ziegler	French		1942-05-03
Patrizia Piacentini	Italian		1961

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