Georges Goyon

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Georges Goyon
Born
Georges Émile Goyon

5 August 1905
Port Said, Egypt
Died12 January 1996(1996-01-12) (aged 90)
Marseille, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationEgyptologist

Georges Émile Goyon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) ɡɔjɔ̃]; 5 August 1905 – 12 January 1996) was a French Egyptologist.[1] A senior fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he was King Farouk's private archaeologist.

Biography

Goyon was born in

Suez Canal Company.[2]
A student and disciple of
abecedary incised on black granite" in Wadi Hammamat.[6]

Funerary mask of pharaoh Amenemope
, whose tomb was rediscovered by Montet and Goyon in 1940 at Tanis

Publications

As author:

  • Les inscriptions et graffiti des voyageurs sur la Grande Pyramide. Préf. de Ét. Drioton. , Société royale de géographie, Cairo, 1944.
  • Le papyrus de Turin dit "des Mines d'or" et le Wadi Hammamat, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1949.
  • Le Tombeau d'Ankhou à Saqqarah, Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1959.
  • Le Secret des bâtisseurs des grandes pyramides - Khéops, Pygmalion Editions, 1983.
  • La Découverte des trésors de Tanis, Éditions Perséa, 1987.

As a contributing author:

  • Les constructions et le tombeau de Chéchanq III à Tanis, 1960.
  • Histoire générale des techniques. Tome I, Les origines de la civilisation technique, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1962.

As an editor:

  • Voyage en Égypte d'Anthoine Morison, 1697, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1976.
  • Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat, Paris: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient (Imprimerie nationale), 1957.

References

  1. ^ G. Goyon on the author list of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) website
  2. ISBN 978-2-268-02884-2
    . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  3. ISBN 978-2-902685-41-7
    . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Cheops" (in German). Benben.de. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  5. ISBN 978-965-223-602-9
    . Retrieved 17 July 2012.
  6. ISBN 978-965-350-089-1
    . Retrieved 17 July 2012.


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