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Gaston Maspero
Born
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
(1846-06-23)23 June 1846
Paris, France
Died
30 June 1916(1916-06-30) (aged 70)
Paris, France
Occupation
Egyptology
Predecessor
Auguste Mariette
Spouse(s)
Harriett Yapp (1871-1873) Louise Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (1880-)
Children
Georges Maspero Harriett Maspero Henri Maspero Jean Maspero
Relatives
François Maspero, grandson
Sir Gaston Camille Charles MasperoKCMG[1] (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper.
Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia.
^'Obituary Notices. Sir Gaston Maspero, K.C.M.G.', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1917, pp. 629–631.
Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia. GastonMaspero was born in Paris in 1846 to Adela Evelina Maspero...
Henri Paul GastonMaspero (15 December 1883 – 17 March 1945) was a French sinologist and professor who contributed to a variety of topics relating to East...
Habu, documenting Year 8 of Ramesses III. In the late 19th century, GastonMaspero, de Rougé's successor at the Collège de France, subsequently popularized...
name Maspero include: François Maspero (1932–2015), French author and journalist GastonMaspero (1846–1916), French Egyptologist Georges Maspero (1872–1942)...
supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes. GastonMaspero, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, had recommended Carter to...
1874–1928) Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette (French, 1821–1881) GastonMaspero (French, 1846–1916) Bernard Mathieu (French, born 1959) Bernadette Menu...
in height. The Luxor Temple had begun to be excavated by Professor GastonMaspero after 1884, once he had been given permission to commence operations...
Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo. The mummy was unwrapped by GastonMaspero on July 1, 1886. There is a strong familial resemblance to the mummy...
Cairo. In 1900, the then-director of the Department of Antiquities GastonMaspero had Dashur inspected, after the guards at the Saqqara necropolis were...
foundation of an identity and a credibility. Mariette was followed by GastonMaspero "as Director General of the Excavations and Antiquities of Egypt, and...
dynasty. The mummy of Thutmose I was thought to be lost, but Egyptologist GastonMaspero, largely on the strength of familial resemblance to the mummies of Thutmose...
similarities between the two peoples' names. A year later, in 1873, GastonMaspero published his "Anatolian hypothesis" which hypothesized the Sea Peoples...
quickly by Eduardo Toda y Güell and Jan Herman Insinger on behalf of GastonMaspero. The burial goods included many ushabti, canopic chests and pieces of...
University Press, Oxford, 2023). E. David, GastonMaspero. Lettres d'Egypte. Correspondence avec Louise Maspero [1883–1914] (Editions du Seuil, Paris, 2003)...
closely in 1904–1905 by the Italian archaeologist Alessandro Barsanti. GastonMaspero, then director-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt...
location of TT320 became publicly known. Later research, conducted by GastonMaspero, stated that members of the local Abd el-Rassul family discovered TT320...
until 1881, when GastonMaspero, who had recently discovered inscribed texts in the pyramids of Pepi I and Merenre I, gained entry. Maspero found the same...
explain why al-Ma'mun could not find the entrance. Scholars such as GastonMaspero and Flinders Petrie have noted that evidence for a similar door has...
of a crocodile and, in thanks, founded the city of Crocodilopolis. GastonMaspero (1910), while acknowledging the possibility that traditions relating...
Press, 2003) p. 81 GastonMaspero, "Popular Stories in Ancient Egypt" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. 6 Maspero, Sir Gaston Camille Charles....
Zakaria Goneim, Jean-François Champollion, Amedeo Peyron, Willem Pleyte, GastonMaspero, Peter le Page Renouf and Kazimierz Michałowski. The Gold Mask of Tutankhamun...
aquiline nose and strong jaw. It stands at about 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in). GastonMaspero, who first unwrapped the mummy of Ramesses II, writes, "on the temples...
translation is the most current and most used. The document was named by GastonMaspero. Written during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, the text presents a long...
was first examined, described, and photographed in January 1902 by GastonMaspero in the company of Howard Carter, Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing, and...
Chabas, in 1872. The following year, the identification was disputed by GastonMaspero, who believed the Shekelesh were Anatolian in origin, instead opting...
of E£108,000. The building was named after the French archaeologist GastonMaspero, who was the chairman of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority. As a key...