Jean Leclant

Jean Leclant (born August 8, 1920 in Paris, France) is a renowned Egyptologist who is an Honorary Professor at the College of France and Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France.

As part of his studies of the archeology of ancient Egyptian artifacts, Jean Leclant has made major discoveries at Saqqara and undertaken excavations at other archaeological sites in Ethiopia and the Sudan. An honorary member of the Humanities and the Social Sciences section of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leclant's work has earned him numerous awards including the 1993 International Balzan Foundation Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World and the 2000 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

Publications

* "The Edifice of Taharqa by the Sacred Lake of Karnak" (with Richard Anthony Parker and Jean Claude Goyon) (Brown University Press, 1979)