Hate to break it to you, but every other tour guide in Egypt will tell you that they actually are an "Egyptologist". It's a common scam. Of course I don't know the situation of your specific tour guide though, they might have been genuine.

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nashashmi 2 days ago | parent [-]

He could read hieroglyphics. And we asked him much more technical questions which he was able to answer.

We had a second tour guide for a different area. He was not an archaeologist. But he was like one of those nerdy guys who study the subject really well and then explain it. His passion and tour guiding was very different than the first, more academic in nature.

	▲	JumpCrisscross 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> He could read hieroglyphics. And we asked him much more technical questions which he was able to answer He took the mandated guide courses. They call themselves Egyptologists after that. That doesn’t make it a scam. Just that he wasn’t equipped for academia. It is notorious that almost all the well-paid and serious positions in Egyptology are with the government in Cairo or at a foreign universities and museums.