Eugène Grébaut (1846 – 8 January 1915) was a French

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. Grébaut made significant discoveries in the complex of mortuary temples and tombs located at

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including several Egyptian mummies of the twenty-first Dynasty. In 1883 he succeeded Eugène Lefébure as director of the ''

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'' in

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. Three years later, he succeeded Gaston Maspero as director of the '' Département des antiquités égyptiennes'', a position he maintained up until 1892. Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer of

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at the Sorbonne in

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. He was the author of "''Hymne à Ammon-Ra des papyrus égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq''" (1874).Hathitrust Digital Library
Hymne à Ammon-Ra des papyrus égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq Grébaut was one of the people working on clearing the sands from around the Great Sphinx. "In the beginning of the year 1887, the chest, the paws, the altar, and plateau were all made visible. Flights of steps were unearthed, and finally accurate measurements were taken of the great figures. The height from the lowest of the steps was found to be one hundred feet, and the space between the paws was found to be thirty-five feet long and ten feet wide. Here there was formerly an altar; and a stele of Thûtmosis IV was discovered, recording a dream in which he was ordered to clear away the sand that even then was gathering round the site of the Sphinx."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grebaut, Eugene 1846 births 1915 deaths French Egyptologists 19th-century French historians Academic staff of the University of Paris French male non-fiction writers Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale Place of birth missing