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    François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 1821 – 18 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian...
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    scheme follows a scenario often attributed to the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, but Verdi biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz argues that the source...
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    the mummified Apis and their opulent burial goods removed. In 1850 Auguste Mariette rediscovered the Serapeum, and excavated it the following years. He...
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    regarding the age of the Sphinx and the associated temples. In 1857, Auguste Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, unearthed the much later...
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    foundation of the new Antiquities Department under the direction of Auguste Mariette. The building lay on the bank of the Nile River, and in 1878 it suffered...
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  • Mariette or Mariëtte may signify: Family name Auguste Mariette (1821–1881), pioneering Egyptologist. Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774), connoisseur and...
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    important archaeological sites of Saqqara. The mastaba was discovered by Auguste Mariette. The mastaba contains two serdabs. The walls of the tomb show various...
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    which had been put on hold. Department of Antiquities In the 1850s, Auguste Mariette made several discoveries at Saqqara, which revived interest into Ancient...
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  • Egypt. Following its discovery, the Stele of Piye was published by Auguste Mariette in 1872. It consists of a front, a reverse, and two thick sides, all...
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    serious excavation was not conducted until the 1850s and 60s under Auguste Mariette. The temple was fully excavated between 1893 and 1906 during an expedition...
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    Ayeeda, Ayida, Ida, Ieeda, Ieda, Ayda, and Iyeeda. The name was used by Auguste Mariette for his sketch of the plot which Giuseppe Verdi later used for his...
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    removed from their location at some point after the reign of Khafre. Auguste Mariette found nine of them during excavations in 1860 (Inv.No. CG 9 to CG 17)[21]...
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    complete exploration was conducted by John Perring in 1837. In 1853, Auguste Mariette partially excavated Khafre's valley temple, and, in 1858, while completing...
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    sculptures had been published mostly in hand copy, not facsimile, by Auguste Mariette in his Abydos, I. The temple has been partially recorded epigraphically...
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    to Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who was in Paris as commissioner for the Egyptian section of the Exposition universelle. Mariette gave him two newly...
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    000 works. Growth continued via acquisitions by Auguste Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Mariette, after excavations at Memphis, sent back...
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    September 1894) was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of...
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  • born 1950) Arthur Cruttenden Mace (British, 1874–1928) Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette (French, 1821–1881) Gaston Maspero (French, 1846–1916) Bernard...
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    which would reflect the ancient Egyptian history. French archaeologist Auguste Mariette, in the Khedive's service, wrote a plot which eventually served the...
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    mastaba, a flat-roofed tomb (named "Saqqara C8") was discovered by Auguste Mariette in the Saqqara necropolis, just north of the Step Pyramid of Djoser...
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    The stela was unearthed in 1863 by Auguste Mariette, who was excavating within the great temple at Tanis. Mariette copied and then reburied the stela...
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    1798, when the temple was identified by a French expedition. In 1860 Auguste Mariette, a French Egyptologist, began the work of freeing Edfu temple from...
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    Archaeology 88 (2002), 95-110 Auguste Mariette, Gaston Maspero: Les mastabas de l'Ancien Empire: Fragment du dernier ouvrage de A. Mariette, publié d'après le manuscrit...
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  • location have lost favour at the expense of the Girga-Birba theory: Auguste Mariette, founder director of the Egyptian Museum, suggested Kom el-Sultan;...
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    the tomb of Khaemweset, were rediscovered by the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette in 1851. Several clusters of tombs of high officials, among which the...
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    The painted and stuccoed coffin was uncovered by early Egyptologists Auguste Mariette and Heinrich Brugsch, who noted that the mummy was in very poor shape...
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    Karl Brugsch (1859) – 4455 BC Franz Joseph Lauth (1869) – 4157 BC Auguste Mariette (1871) – 5004 BC James Strong (1878) – 2515 BC Flinders Petrie (1887)...
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    the rejoicings throughout the country when a new Apis was found. Auguste Mariette's excavation of the Serapeum of Saqqara revealed the tombs of more than...
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  • Otto Ludwig, German author, playwright, and critic (d. 1865) 1821 – Auguste Mariette, French archaeologist and scholar (d. 1881) 1830 – Hans Bronsart von...
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  • of Mankind and the Development of Civilization. French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth...
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