Claude Traunecker (born 1943 in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace af ...

) is a French Egyptologist, professor at the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ...

and researcher at the CNRS. He has participated in numerous archaeological excavations and research on ancient Egypt. From 1968 to 1984, Traunecker worked in Franco-Egyptian Center for the Study of Temples

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and Luxor. He published research in the journal '' Cahiers de Karnak''. Claude Traunecker taught at the

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from 1985 to 1995. He was then a professor at the

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. In 1996, he was elected chair of Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg, a position he held until 2007. During the excavation campaign of 2004–2005, he explored the many rooms of the Theban tomb,

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. Traunecker has authored many books and papers. He is the author of ''The Gods of Egypt'', and in 1984 he published ''Karnak: résurrection d'un site'' with

Jean-Claude Golvin Jean-Claude Golvin (born 18 December 1942) is a French archaeologist and architect. He specializes in the history of Roman amphitheatres and has published hundreds of reconstruction drawings of ancient monuments. Golvin is a researcher with the CN ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Traunecker, Claude 1943 births Living people French Egyptologists Writers from Mulhouse Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg