Émile Baraize (28 August 1874 – 15 April 1952) was a French

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Life

In 1912 he succeeded

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as director of the director of works within the

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. Throughout his life, he worked to restore and rebuild several ancient buildings, especially the

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. From 1925 to 1936 he was involved in its restoration, which involved completely clearing away the sand from it, and directed excavations around it and inside it, in search of the rooms which many 19th century Egyptologists believed lay within it. These excavations were hurried and had to be carried out with minimal equipment, but they did partially succeed in their objectives, for Baraize discovered a tunnel starting at the

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, which he explored before the entry was condemned. In 1933, under his direction, a cache of Sarcophagi was discovered concealed under a Temple in El-Deir d'Bahari, belonging to a family of high priests of the

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