Georges Émile Jules Daressy (19 March 1864 – 28 February 1938) was a French
Egyptologist
Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious ...
.
He worked from 1887 in the
Egyptian Museum
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display a ...
in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
. Amongst his responsibilities was the museum's move from Bulaq to
Giza
Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 ...
in 1891, and then to the present-day location in 1901. He is an author of the general catalog of the museum. He was the first Egyptologist to publish (1901) and translate (1906) the ''
Akhmim wooden tablets The Akhmim wooden tablets, also known as the Cairo wooden tablets (Cairo Cat. 25367 and 25368), are two wooden writing tablets from ancient Egypt, solving arithmetical problems. They each measure around and are covered with plaster. The tablets ar ...
.''
He excavated throughout Egypt, most notably in the
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...
,
Medinet Habu,
Karnak
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (, which was originally derived from ar, خورنق ''Khurnaq'' "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construct ...
,
Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
,
Malkata
Malkata (or Malqata; ar, الملقطة, lit=the place where things are picked up), is the site of an Ancient Egyptian palace complex built during the New Kingdom, by the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep III. It is located on the West Bank of the ...
and
Abydos.
Publications
* , Le Caire, 1893.
* , Le Caire, 1897.
* , 1898.
* , Le Caire : , 1901, ().
* , Le Caire : , 1902, ().
* , Le Caire : , 1903, ().
* , Le Caire : Imprimerie de l'Inst. Franc̜ais d'Archéologie Orientale, 1905, ().
* , Le Caire : Imprimerie de l'Inst. Franc̜ais d'Archéologie Orientale, 1905–1906, ().
* XXVIII, 1906, 62–72.
* , Le Caire : , 1909, ().
* ''The tomb of queen Tîyi : Catalogue of the objects discovered'', London, 1910, (Theodore M. Davis' Excavations : Bibân el Molûk).
* ''A brief description of the principal monuments exhibited in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo'', Cairo : Press of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, 1922, 3. Auflage 1925.
References
External links
Akhmim Wooden Tablet
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1864 births
1938 deaths
French Egyptologists