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Gaston Maspero
Born
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero

(1846-06-23)23 June 1846
Paris, France
Died30 June 1916(1916-06-30) (aged 70)
Paris, France
OccupationEgyptology
PredecessorAuguste Mariette
Spouse(s)Harriett Yapp (1871-1873)
Louise Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (1880-)
ChildrenGeorges Maspero
Harriett Maspero
Henri Maspero
Jean Maspero
RelativesFrançois Maspero, grandson

Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG[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.

  1. ^ 'Obituary Notices. Sir Gaston Maspero, K.C.M.G.', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, July 1917, pp. 629–631.

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Gaston Maspero

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Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia. Gaston Maspero was born in Paris in 1846 to Adela Evelina Maspero...

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Henri Maspero

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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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Sea Peoples

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Habu, documenting Year 8 of Ramesses III. In the late 19th century, Gaston Maspero, de Rougé's successor at the Collège de France, subsequently popularized...

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Maspero

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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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Howard Carter

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supervise the excavation of nobles' tombs in Deir el-Bahri, near Thebes. Gaston Maspero, head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service, had recommended Carter to...

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List of Egyptologists

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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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Luxor Temple

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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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Thutmose II

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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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Pyramidion of Amenemhat III

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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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Supreme Council of Antiquities

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foundation of an identity and a credibility. Mariette was followed by Gaston Maspero "as Director General of the Excavations and Antiquities of Egypt, and...

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Thutmose I

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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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Weshesh

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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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TT1

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quickly by Eduardo Toda y Güell and Jan Herman Insinger on behalf of Gaston Maspero. The burial goods included many ushabti, canopic chests and pieces of...

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Giza pyramid complex

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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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Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan

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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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Royal Cache

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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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Pyramid of Unas

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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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Great Pyramid of Giza

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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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Menes

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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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Tale of Two Brothers

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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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Egyptian Museum

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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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Ramesses II

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aquiline nose and strong jaw. It stands at about 1.7 metres (5 ft 7 in). Gaston Maspero, who first unwrapped the mummy of Ramesses II, writes, "on the temples...

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The Satire of the Trades

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translation is the most current and most used. The document was named by Gaston Maspero. Written during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, the text presents a long...

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Amenhotep II

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was first examined, described, and photographed in January 1902 by Gaston Maspero in the company of Howard Carter, Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing, and...

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Shekelesh

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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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Maspero television building

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of E£108,000. The building was named after the French archaeologist Gaston Maspero, who was the chairman of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority. As a key...

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