Nicolas Grimal

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Nicolas-Christophe Grimal (born 13 November 1948 in Libourne) is a French Egyptologist.

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Nicolas Grimal was born to Pierre Grimal in 1948. After his Agrégation in Classics in 1971, he obtained a PhD in 1976 and a Doctorat d'État in 1984. He has been a professor at the Sorbonne from 1988 to 2000.

From 1989 to 1999, he headed the French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo. Since 1990, he has been the scientific director of the Franco-Egyptian Centre for study of the temples of Karnak. He has held the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France since 2000. [1]

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References

  1. "Nicolas Grimal: Civilisation pharaonique : Archéologie, Philologie, Histoire" (in French). Collège de France. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2011.