- Pierre Montet
Pierre Montet (
June 27 1885 –June 19 1966 ) was a respected FrenchEgyptologist . He first began his studies underVictor Loret at the University ofLyon .He excavated at
Byblos (modernJbail ) inLebanon between 1921 and 1924, excavating tombs of rulers fromMiddle Kingdom times. Between 1929 and 1939, he excavated at Tanis,Egypt , finding the royal necropolis of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties — the finds there almost equalled that ofTutankhamun 's tomb in theValley of the Kings . In the 1939-1940 Egypt excavation season, he discovered the completely intact tombs of 3 kings:Psusennes I , Amenemope, andShoshenq II along with the partially plundered tomb ofTakelot I in Lower Egypt at Tanis. The latter tomb contained a gold bracelet of Osorkon I, Takelot's father, as well as a heart scarab. He also found the fully plundered tomb ofOsorkon II as well as the partly plundered tomb of this king's son, PrinceHornakht . The start ofWorld War II in Western Europe in May 1940 stopped all excavation work at Tanis. However, after the war, Montet resumed his activities at Tanis and proceeded to uncover the intact tomb of General Wendjebaendjed, who served under Psusennes I.During his academic career, he served as Professor of
Egyptology at theUniversity of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1948 and then at theCollège de France ,Paris between 1948 and 1956. He died inParis onJune 19 ,1966 .References
* [http://www.egyptologyonline.com/tanis.htm Treasures of Tanis]
Publications
* La Necropole Royale de Tanis (1958)
* Everyday Life in the Days of Ramesses the Great (1958)
* Eternal Egypt (1964)
* Tanis, douze années de fouilles dans une capitale oubliée du delta Égyptien, Payot, Paris, (1942)
* [English: Tanis, twelve years of excavations in a forgotten capital of the Egyptian delta, Payot, Paris, (1942)]
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