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Also Known As Gaston-Camille-Charles Maspero
Born June 23, 1846 • Paris • France
Died June 30, 1916 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Founder Egyptian Museum

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Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Map showing the extent of the Ancient Egyptian Empire during the New Kingdom period of Thutmose III, highlighted in orange, covering Egypt, the Nile River valley, Sinai, and stretching northeast through Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. The map also marks the Fertile Crescent and neighboring regions such as Assyria and Babylonia in pink, with key cities and geographic features labeled.
Thutmose III
king of Egypt
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
James Henry Breasted
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist
Joseph Fourier
Joseph Fourier
French mathematician
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Christian Jacq
French Egyptologist and writer
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Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Henri Breuil.
Henri Breuil
French archaeologist
Rosetta Stone
Jean-François Champollion
French historian and linguist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
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Paul-Émile Botta
French archaeologist
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Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
French archaeologist
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Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
French archaeologist
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Ernest de Sarzec
French archaeologist
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Pierre Montet
French Egyptologist
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André Parrot
French archaeologist
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Bernard de Montfaucon
French scholar
Quicherat, detail of a lithograph by Tony Toullion
Jules Quicherat
French historian