Maurice Alliot (24 September 1903 – 22 October 1960) was a French Egyptologist. He was a professor of

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s (from 1937) and

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(from 1953). Under the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology from 1930, he participated in excavations of

Deir el-Medina Deir el-Medina (), or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to 20th Dynasties of the New Kingdom of Egypt (ca. 1550–1080 BC). ...

and

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, the latter of which he wrote two volumes about.

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French Egyptologists 1903 births 1960 deaths Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale {{France-academic-bio-stub