Jacques de Morgan

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Jacques Jean Marie de Morgan (1892)

Jean-Jacques de Morgan (3 June 1857 – 14 June 1924)

Dashur, providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids. He also worked at Stonehenge, and Persepolis
, and many other sites.

He also went to Russian Armenia, as manager of a copper mine at Akhtala. "The Caucasus is of special interest in the study of the origins of metals; it is the easternmost point from which prehistoric remains are known; older than Europe and Greece, it still retains the traces of those civilizations that were the cradle of our own."

In 1887-89 he unearthed 576 graves around

Alexandropol railway line.[4]

Early life

He was born in

Merovingian
cemeteries, and who showed him how to catalogue excavated objects. De Morgan's goal was to be a professional geologist like his father, and his personal lifestyle had given him a way to travel and study since his early youth. In 1879 he started to publish the results of his research, illustrated with drawings that were notable for their finesse and documentary precision.

Malaya

As a young man, de Morgan travelled to Perak, then a new British protectorate in Malaya. In 1884, where he was commissioned by Hugh Low, the Resident of Perak, to produce the first geological and mining map of the district of Kinta in exchange for a tin concession at Kliang Lallang near Gopeng. De Morgan studied the tin mines around Lahat, Papan, Pusing and Gopeng. A photogravure of the map, which also showed the topography and drainage system of the Kinta Valley, was enclosed in the Perak annual report of 1884.[5]

While in Kinta, de Morgan was guided by a

Mandailing prospector named Kulop Riau, using Orang Asli guides and porters. De Morgan stayed with the Orang Asli and made ethnological observations and drawings in his travel journal.[6] De Morgan also met Raja Bilah, the headman of the Mandailing in Papan and the doyen of the Perak Mandailing. De Morgan observed Chinese, Mandailing and European mines in Papan, and remarked that the most important mine belonged to Raja Bilah.[7]

Tin mining in France

Upon his return to France, he formed a tin-mining company, but appears to have lost out on his financial interest when this was merged with the Société des Mines de'Etain de Pérak in 1886 to form the Société des Etains de Kinta, better known as SEK, which became the longest-running mine in Malaysia.[8]

Travels in Iran and places nearby

De Morgan travelled to

Susiana as he attempted to retrace the routes of the Assyrian campaigns in Elam. He arrived in Susa, former capital of Elam, which had been explored six years previously by an expedition led by Marcel Dieulafoy. As he explored the ruins outside the small village of Shush, his curiosity was aroused by the high mound known as "the Citadel
", at the foot of which he recovered some flints and old potsherds.

These finds led him to reopen excavations at the site. In

Mandaean texts
; and two volumes of geographical studies.

The excavations at

Shutruk-Nahhunte
.

Work in Egypt

He was the director of antiquities in Egypt from 1892 to 1897, and excavated in Memphis and Dahshur,[3] providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0415032636
    .
  2. ^
    S2CID 163950004
    .
  3. ^ a b Dawson, Warren Royal; Hill, Eric Parrington (1972) [1951]. Who was who in Egyptology: A Biographical Index of Egyptologists; of Travellers, Explorers and Excavators in Egypt; of Collectors of and Dealers in Egyptian Antiquities; of Consuls, Officials, Authors, Benefactors and Others Whose Names Occur in the Literature of Egyptology, from the Year 1700. Egypt Exploration Society. p. 82.
  4. ISBN 978-1604449112
    .
  5. ^ Khoo Salma Nasution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development, Ipoh: Perak Academy, 2005, p. 21, 89.
  6. ^ Khoo Salma Nasution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development, Ipoh: Perak Academy, 2005, p. 354.
  7. ^ Abdur-Razzaq Lubis and Khoo Salma Nasution, Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak: 1875-1911, Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2003, p. 89.
  8. ^ Khoo Salma Nasution and Abdur-Razzaq Lubis, Kinta Valley: Pioneering Malaysia’s Modern Development, Ipoh: Perak Academy, 2005, p. 89-90.
  9. ISBN 978-0-521-20095-0
    .
  10. S2CID 162066962
    .

Bibliography

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d 1924 Jacques de Morgan (1857), French archeologist, geologist, civil engineer, author of ... iranicaonline.org
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