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Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
Gaston Maspero
French Egyptologist
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist
Heinrich Karl Brugsch
German Egyptologist
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Christian Jacq
French Egyptologist and writer
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist