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Auguste Mariette. Deux siècles après
Archaiologia On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Auguste Mariette (Boulogne-sur-Mer 1821 - Cairo 1881), we wished to return to his personality, but also to consider the role he played in this new science, Egyptology, which was then in its infancy, some thirty years after the deciphering of the hieroglyphs by another Frenchman, Jean-François Champollion. There are biographies of Auguste Mariette, but no other work deals with the place of his work in the political and cultural history of Egypt in the 19th century and in that of archaeological discoveries. The book benefits from a diverse and multidisciplinary approach (archaeologists, historians, curators and museographers from France and abroad) and from unpublished archival sources: twenty-four contributors from different geographical and professional backgrounds have contributed to the book by presenting new documents or points of view. Nb of pages 384 p • Auguste MarietteFrench archaeologist and Egyptologist (1821–1881)
François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (11 February 1821 – 18 January 1881) was a French scholar, archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, the forerunner of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Early career[edit]Auguste Mariette was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, where his father was town clerk. Educated at the Boulogne municipal college, where he distinguished himself and showed much artistic talent, he went to England in 1839 when eighteen as professor of French and drawing at a boys' school at Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1840 he became pattern-designer to a band • A statue of Auguste Mariette in his home city of Boulogne-sur-Mer. François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (February 11, 1821 – January 19, 1881) was a French scholar and archaeologist, one of the early pioneers of Egyptology. He became famous for his discoveries at Saqqara, the vast, ancient burial ground in Memphis, capital of Ancient Egypt. There he uncovered the Avenue of the Sphinxes and the Serapeum, an ancient temple and cemetery of the sacred Apis bulls. Although originally sent to Egypt under the auspices of the French government, and thus obliged to send his findings to France for display in the Louvre, Mariette believed that the findings should remain in Egypt. He accepted a permanent position in Egypt and spent the rest of his life there, securing a monopoly on excavation. He founded of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, which became the foremost repository of Egyptian antiquities. Mariette's work was significant in opening the field of Egyptology, bringing knowledge of | |||||||||||||||