Émile Brugsch (February 24, 1842 – January 14, 1930) was a German Egyptologist whose career spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known as the official who "evacuated" the mummies from the Deir el-Bahri Cache in 1881 without recording the plan of the tomb which has fuelled speculation that he was involved in the pilfering of antiquities. He was assistant curator of the

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- the core element of what is today's Egyptian Museum. Brugsch was born in

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, and was the brother of the Egyptologist Heinrich Karl Brugsch. He assisted author and

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in 1904 by having the

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translated by his assistant. The Stele, and the translation, became integral parts of Crowley's subsequent writing of '' The Book of the Law'' and his founding of the philosophical practice and religion of

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. He is mentioned in ''The Temple of Heliopolis'' by Wm. J. Shaw, whom he assisted with translation of hieroglyphics at the temple. Brugsch threw on the rubbish heap an arm found in the tomb of Djer which Ancient Egyptians believed was the tomb of

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. He has been described as leaving "behind him an evil reputation" through his dealings in Egypt.Hatchepsut, Joyce Tyldesley, p. 93 Brugsch died in

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, aged 87.

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Giants of Egyptology: 9th of a Series - The Brothers Brugsch
, accessed December 28, 2006 * verland monthly and Out West, The Temple of Heliopolis [Volume 14, Issue 5, May 1875; pp. 438–444 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/ahj1472.1-14.005/434] 1842 births 1930 deaths Archaeologists from Berlin German Egyptologists German male non-fiction writers {{Egyptologist-stub

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