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Vaucluse
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Christiane Ziegler
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Claude Traunecker Claude Traunecker (born 1943 in Mulhouse) is a French Egyptologist, professor at the University of Strasbourg and researcher at the CNRS. He has participated in numerous archaeological excavations and research on ancient Egypt.
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University of Paris IV
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, she went on an expedition in 1991 of the Theban region of the
New Kingdom
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of Egypt, under the direction Professor Nicolas Grimal. For the Franco-Egyptian Centre for the Study of
Karnak
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(CFEETK), she collected epigraphic data and made numerous archaeological observations. She also examined the Tomb of Khabekhenet with
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Broadening her field of investigation to ancient processional rites, she then tried to reconstruct the liturgical context, the routes, the navigations and the modes of circulation of the processions in the Theban region. On this subject, she first defended a DEA in 1992, then a thesis in 1995 at the University of Lille- III, under the direction of
Dominique Valbelle
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. On the advice of Professor Jan Quaegebeur, she published ''The Processional Ways of Thebes'' in the series Orientalia Loviensia Analecta, in 2001, thanks to Professor Harco Willems, Jan Quaegebeur's successor in Louvain.
Gillam notes the work that Cabrol contributed to in the understanding of the temples of the New Kingdom, and her attention to political and religious symbolism. Cabrol obtained a PhD from the
University of Lille III
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in 1995, under the direction of Professor Dominique Valbelle and remained there to lecture and founded two associations "Papyrus" and "Vasco de Gama" associations in Lille.
Cabrol curated the exhibition: ''Tombs of the Nile, funerary treasures of Nubia'', which was held at
Château de Flers
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in Villeneuve d'Ascq in 1998.
Cabrol became an expert on Thebes, and was the author of numerous books and papers, notably ''Amenhotep III: le Magnifique'' (2000), ''Les voies procesionelles de Thèbes'' (2001), and ''Regards sur l'orientalisme et l'égyptologie'' (2006).
In 2003, Cabrol was appointed lecturer in Lille although she was already ill. She died in her village of Gordes (Vaucluse) on 7 January 2007.