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approach with a rational use of hypothesis and verification, a method in line with the hypothetico-deductive methods of logical positivism.
Malmer has also published in the area of rock carvings and museum studies, and his excavations of sites, and papers and reports on these, range from the Mesolithic to the medieval.
References
For references, see Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists, Vol. 1, ed. Tim Murray (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999), pp. 207–209.
(1821–1881)
Auguste Mariette was born in Boulogne, France, and briefly lived and taught drawing and French in England. He developed an interest in Egyptology through the illustrations and notes of his cousin Nestor L’Hote, who had been a draftsman on jean-françois champollion’s expedition to Egypt between 1828 and 1829. Mariette taught himself hieroglyphics from Champollion’s grammar and dictionary, studied Coptic, and began working at the louvre Museum, where he completed an inventory of all of the Egyptian inscriptions in the collection.
In 1850 the Louvre sent him to Egypt to collect papyri but instead he began excavating the Saqqara Serapeum, the huge subterranean gallery containing the sacred Apis bulls. He also located the Fifth Dynasty tomb of Ti at saqqara. In 1855 the Louvre appointed him Assistant Conservator and he returned to Egypt to excavate at Giza, Thebes, abydos, and Elephantine.
The Temple of Horus at Edfu, one of the most complete extant temples in Egypt and one of the many sites excavated by Auguste Mariette
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In 1858 Mariette was appointed the first director of the new Egyptian Antiquities Service by the joint ruling Pashas of Egypt. The National Museum in Cairo was founded in that same
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