Marc Gabolde (born 30 May 1957 in

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

) is a French Egyptologist, specialist of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the

Amarna Amarna (; ar, العمارنة, al-ʿamārnah) is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city of the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Ph ...

period. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the

University Lumière Lyon 2 A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

in 1992, he joined Scientific IFAO (1993-1997). Since 1999 he has been a lecturer at the Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III. He has conducted archaeological missions in the

Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens ( ar, وادي الملكات ) is a site in Egypt, where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times. It was known then as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning "the place of beauty". It was most famous for being the burial site ...

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 ...

, Balat,

Tebtunis Tebtunis was a city and later town in Lower Egypt. The settlement was founded in approximately 1800 BCE by the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat III. It was located in what is now the village of Tell Umm el-Baragat in the Faiyum Governorate. In Tebtu ...

and

. Gabolde is the author of ''D'Akhénaton à Toutânkhamon'' (2000).

Publications

* ''Akhenaton : Du mystère à la lumière'', coll.

Découvertes Gallimard (, ; in United Kingdom: ''New Horizons'', in United States: ''Abrams Discoveries'') is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format. The books are concise introductions to pa ...

(nº 478), Paris, Gallimard, 2005, 128 pp. * Collab with Jean-Luc Bovot, Jean-Luc Chappaz and Rolf Krauss, ''Akhénaton et l'époque amarnienne'', Paris, Khéops, 2005, 318 pp. * ''D'Akhénaton à Toutânkhamon'', Paris, Inst. Arch. Hist. Antiquité, 2000, 310 pp.

References

French Egyptologists 1957 births Living people Writers from Nantes Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale {{Egyptologist-stub