biography
| name: |
Reisner, George (Andrew)
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pronunciation:
[riyzner]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1867–1942)
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| biography:
| Egyptologist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He studied law at Harvard, then Egyptology in Berlin, returning to Harvard to teach Egyptology (1905–42). For the Egyptian government he directed the important campaign to survey Nubian monuments threatened by the raising of the first Aswan dam (1907–9), returning (1916–23) to explore the pyramids of Meroe and Napata. His outstanding discovery (1925) was the tomb of Queen Hetepheres, mother of Cheops, the only major find of jewellery and furniture surviving from the Old Kingdom. |
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