Georges Émile Jules Daressy
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Georges Émile Jules Daressy (19 March 1864 – 28 February 1938) was a French
Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end ...
. He worked from 1887 in the
Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (, Egyptian Arabic: ) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian antiquities in the world. It hou ...
in
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. Amongst his responsibilities was the museum's move from Bulaq to
Giza Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah, Gizeh, Geeza, Jiza''; , , ' ) is the third-largest city in Egypt by area after Cairo and Alexandria; and fourth-largest city in Africa by population after Kinshasa, Lagos, and Cairo. It is the capital of ...
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 are two wooden writing tablets from ancient Egypt, solving arithmetical problems. They each measure around and are covered with plaster. The tablets are inscribed on both sides. The ...
.'' He excavated throughout Egypt, most notably in the
Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and power ...
,
Medinet Habu Medinet Habu (; ; ; ) is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt. Although other structures are located within the area and important disco ...
,
Karnak The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (), comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (reigned 1971–1926 BC) in the ...
,
Luxor Luxor is a city in Upper Egypt. Luxor had a population of 263,109 in 2020, with an area of approximately and is the capital of the Luxor Governorate. It is among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited c ...
,
Malkata Malkata (or Malqata; ), 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 Nile at Thebes, Upper Egypt, in the desert to the south of ...
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.


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Akhmim Wooden Tablet
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