Henning Franzmeier

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Henning Franzmeier is a German archaeologist and Egyptologist with the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim and University College London (UCL). Taking over from Edgar B. Pusch he has been field director of the "Qantir-Piramesse Project" [1] [2] in Egypt's Nile Delta since 2015, where Pi-Ramesses, the capital of Ramesside Egypt is being unearthed.

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Franzmeier received his PhD in Egyptology from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, with a thesis re-evaluating the excavations of Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton at the Middle Egyptian site of Sedment in 1920/21. In 2011, in the course of his PhD research, Franzmeier identified in Rochdale a relief fragment of the vizier Prehotep that had been thought lost and was known only from a photograph from the archaeological dig during which it was unearthed in 1920–21. [3] He furthermore holds a MA in Egyptology from the University of Göttingen.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "Henning Franzmeier". UCL Qatar. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  2. "Erforschung der Ramses-Stadt". Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. Durrant, Nancy (29 January 2016). "The key to a good death: great eyeliner". The Times . London. p. 12.