Sydney Hervé Aufrère (born July 2, 1951, in

Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...

) is a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at

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.Egyptontimes.com
/ref> From 1973 to 1976 he worked in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the

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, then for sixteen months (1976-1977), the " Centre for Documentation of Ancient Egypt" (CEDA), Cairo. He participated from 1976 to 1980 in archaeological expeditions in the

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(

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's tomb QV80) and the

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. From 1981 to 1983 he was assistant teacher of Egyptian Archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre, then in 1983/84, he was a lecturer in Egyptian inscriptions of the same school. From 1985 to 1989, he was a scientific member of the

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, and participated in excavations. In 1991, he was appointed director of research at CNRS, and was affiliated with the Université Paul Valéry from 1991 to 2005. From 1992 to 2003 he supervised the unit that specializes in texts from the

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. Since October 2005 he has been affiliated with the

University of Provence-Aix-Marseille The University of Provence Aix-Marseille I () was a public research university mostly located in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. It was one of the three Universities of Aix-Marseille and was part of the Academy of Aix and Marseille. On 1 January ...

Publications

*''Égypte et Provence, civilisation, survivances et cabinet de curiosités'', Avignon, Fondation du musée Calvet, 1985 *''La momie et la tempête, la curiosité égyptienne en Provence au début du XVIIe siècle'', Avignon, A. Barthélemy, 1990 *with J.C. Golvin &

Jean-Claude Goyon Jean-Claude Goyon (2 August 1937 – 24 June 2021) was a French Egyptologist, and professor of Egyptology at Lumière University Lyon 2. Biography After earning a doctoral degree in literature, Goyon became a research fellow at the French Nationa ...

, ''L'Égypte restituée, sites et temples de Haute-Égypte'', vol. tome 1, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1991 *''L'univers minéral dans la pensée égyptienne'', I-II, Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, coll. « BdE », 1991 *with J.C. Golvin &

, ''L'Égypte restituée, Sites et temples des déserts'', vol. tome 2, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1994 *''Dieux du désert égyptien, Ha et la défense mythique des déserts de l'ouest'' � L'archéologue, n°11 » Paris, Archéologie nouvelle, 1995 *''Description de l'Égypte, ou, recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'Armée française, publié sous les ordres de Napoléon Bonaparte'', France, Bibliothèque de l'Image, 1997 *with J.C. Golvin &

, ''L'Égypte restituée, sites, temples et pyramides de Moyenne et Basse Égypte de la naissance de la civilisation pharaonique à l'époque gréco-romaine'', vol. tome 3, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1997 *''Un prolongement méditerranéen du mythe de la Lointaine à l’époque tardive'', Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1998, p. 19-39 *''Encyclopédie religieuse de l'univers végétal, Montpellier'', Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III, 1999-2001 *''Le propylône d'Amon-Rê-Montou à Karnak Nord'', Le Caire, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, coll. « MIFAO, n°117 », 2000 *with Maximilien Dauber, ''L'Égypte en question'', Avignon, Éditions A. Barthélemy, 2005 ()

References

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