 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nhau yazvino yeEgyptology inotanga nekupinda kweEgyptnaNapoleon Bonaparte mukupera kwezana ramakore rechi18. Dombo reRosetta rakawanikwa muna 1799. Kudzidzwa kwezvinhu zvakawanda zveIjipiti yekare kwakava kwakatungamirirwa nesayenzi nekubudiswa kwe Mémoires sur lÉgypte muna 1800 uye Description de lEgypte yakazara pakati pa 1809 na 1829. Izvi zvakanyora maruva, mhuka, uye nhau dzeIjipiti - zvichiita kuti zvinyorwa zvakawanda zveIjipiti yekare zviwanikwe kuEurope kwenguva yokutanga. VaBritain vakatora Ijipiti kuvaFrench ndokuwana Rosetta Stone muna 1801, manyoro echiGiriki ayo akashandurwa na 1803. Muna 1822, mahieroglyphs echiEgipita akachinjwa naJean-François Champollion, achiratidza kutanga kweEgyptology yemazuva ano. Zivo yokunyora kwevaIjipiti zvayaiwedzera, kudzidza nezveIjipiti yekare kwakakwanisa kupfuurira nokungwarira zvikuru mune zvedzidzo. Champollion, Thomas Young naIppolito Rosellini vakanga vari vamwe vavanzveri veEgipita vokutanga vakakurumbira zvikuru. MuGermany Karl Richard Lepsius akanga ari mumwe wokutanga kubatanidzwa munzvero dzeEgipita - achigadzira mepu, achichera uye achinyora nzvimbo dzinoverengeka. 