Pierre Montet

Pierre Montet (1885 – 1966) was a French Egyptologist. He studied under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon.

He excavated at Byblos (modern Jubayl) in Lebanon between 1921 and 1924, excavating tombs of rulers from Middle Kingdom times. Between 1929 and 1939, he excavated at Tanis, Egypt, finding the royal necropolis of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Dynasties — the finds there almost equalled that of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

In the 1939-1940 excavation season, he discovered the completely intact tombs of 3 kings: Psusennes I, Amenemope, and Shoshenq II plus the partially plundered tomb of Takelot I in Lower Egypt at Tanis. The latter tomb contained a gold bracelet of Osorkon I, Takelot's father, as well as a heart scarab. He also found the fully plundered tombs of Osorkon II and his son, Prince Hornakht. The start of World War II in Western Europe in May 1940 stopped all excavation work at Tanis. However, after the war, Montet resumed his activities at Tanis and proceeded to uncover the intact tomb of General Wendjebaendjed, who served under Psusennes I.

Later in his career he was Professor of Egyptology at the University of Strasbourg from 1919 to 1948 and then at the Collège de France, Paris between 1948 and 1956.

He died in Paris on June 19, 1966.

References

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• Treasures of Tanis

Publications

• La Necropole Royale de Tanis (1958)
• Everyday Life in the Days of Ramesses the Great (1958)
• Eternal Egypt (1964)

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