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    Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist and director general of excavations and antiquities for...
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  • Henri Paul Gaston Maspero (15 December 1883 – 17 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East...
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    first proposed by the 19th century Egyptologists Emmanuel de Rougé and Gaston Maspero, on the basis of primary sources such as the reliefs on the Mortuary...
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  • name Maspero include: François Maspero (1932–2015), French author and journalist Gaston Maspero (1846–1916), French Egyptologist Georges Maspero (1872–1942)...
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    employed Howard Carter to undertake the work on the recommendation of Gaston Maspero, director of the Egyptian Antiquities Department. In 1912 Carnarvon...
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    foundation of an identity and a credibility. Mariette was followed by Gaston Maspero, whose biggest contribution was the examination of the mummy of Ramses...
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  • 1874–1928) Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette (French, 1821–1881) Gaston Maspero (French, 1846–1916) Bernard Mathieu (French, born 1959) Bernadette Menu...
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    in height. The Luxor Temple had begun to be excavated by Professor Gaston Maspero after 1884, once he had been given permission to commence operations...
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    supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahari, near Thebes. Gaston Maspero, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, had recommended Carter to...
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    Cairo. In 1900, the then-director of the Department of Antiquities Gaston Maspero had Dashur inspected, after the guards at the Saqqara necropolis were...
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    until 1881, when Gaston Maspero, who had recently discovered inscribed texts in the pyramids of Pepi I and Merenre I, gained entry. Maspero found the same...
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  • similarities between the two peoples' names. A year later, in 1873, Gaston Maspero published his "Anatolian hypothesis" which hypothesized the Sea Peoples...
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    location of TT320 became publicly known. Later research, conducted by Gaston Maspero, stated that members of the local Abd el-Rassul family discovered TT320...
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    of a crocodile and, in thanks, founded the city of Crocodilopolis. Gaston Maspero (1910), while acknowledging the possibility that traditions relating...
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    Zakaria Goneim, Jean-François Champollion, Amedeo Peyron, Willem Pleyte, Gaston Maspero, Peter le Page Renouf and Kazimierz Michałowski. The Gold Mask of Tutankhamun...
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    University Press, Oxford, 2023). E. David, Gaston Maspero. Lettres d'Egypte. Correspondence avec Louise Maspero [1883–1914] (Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2003)...
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    dynasty. The mummy of Thutmose I was thought to be lost, but Egyptologist Gaston Maspero, largely on the strength of familial resemblance to the mummies of Thutmose...
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    explain why al-Ma'mun could not find the entrance. Scholars such as Gaston Maspero and Flinders Petrie have noted that evidence for a similar door has...
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    closely in 1904–1905 by the Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti. Gaston Maspero, then director-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt...
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  • Chabas, in 1872. The following year, the identification was disputed by Gaston Maspero, who believed the Shekelesh were Anatolian in origin, instead opting...
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    Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. The mummy was unwrapped by Gaston Maspero on July 1, 1886. There is a strong familial resemblance to the mummy...
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  • monuments he decided to make Egyptology his career. Smoleński applied to Gaston Maspero and obtained a post in the library of the French Institute and studied...
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    Press, 2003) p. 81 Gaston Maspero, "Popular Stories in Ancient Egypt" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 6 Maspero, Sir Gaston Camille Charles....
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    "dance of Mahanaim" is mentioned in Song of Songs 6:13. According to Gaston Maspero (The Struggle of the Nations, p. 773), Mahanaim was among the cities...
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    Jean Maspero (20 December 1885 – 17 February 1915) was an early 20th-century French papyrologist. He was the son of egyptologist Gaston Maspero and his...
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    concentration camp. His grandfather, Gaston Maspero, who died before his birth, was a famous Egyptologist. François Maspero opened a book store in the Latin...
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    exhausted". In 1907, Howard Carter was invited by William Garstin and Gaston Maspero to excavate for George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon in the Valley...
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  • ancient Egypt, and in 1895–96 he studied under the French archaeologist Gaston Maspero in Paris. He then went to Queen's College, Oxford with a scholarship...
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  • discovered in 1881 in the Deir el-Bahari cache. Her mummy was unwrapped by Gaston Maspero on June 19, 1886 where it was found to be damaged by tomb robbers. Sitkamose...
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  • deserts of Africa. In the Black Pyramid of Abusir, dating before 2000 BC, Gaston Maspero found some pieces of iron. In the funeral text of Pepi I, the metal...
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