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Georges Foucart
French historian and Egyptologist
Georges Foucart (11 December 1865, in Paris – 1943) was a French historian and Egyptologist.[1] He was the son of archaeologist Paul Foucart (1836–1926), a professor of ancient Greek studies at the Collège de France.[2]
From 1898 to 1906, he was a professor of ancient history at the University of Bordeaux, afterwards serving as a professor of history of religions at Aix-Marseille University. From 1915 to 1928, he was director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo.[3][4]