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Study of the wall reliefs and other decorated architectural elements of the temple of Amenhotep III (c.

The amazing Hourig Sourouzian with Jan Picton of the Friends of the Petrie Museum.

The amazing Hourig Sourouzian with Jan Picton of the Friends of the Petrie Museum.

Hourig Sourouzian.

Hourig Sourouzian discovered this head of a limestone sphinx at the archaeological site of the temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor.

One of the more intriguing discoveries is a tablet inscribed with the name of Senmut, Hatshepsut's chief architect and “Overseer of the Royal.

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1382-1344 BC) in Kom el-Hettan (Luxor, Egypt)

Dr. Hourig Sourouzian is an Egyptologist and Art Historian. She is also a corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and the ICOMOS Armenia.

Her diploma is from École du Louvre (Paris) with her dissertation on The Monuments of King Merenptah. She has a degree from the École des Langues Orientales.

This companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars.

 Later, she obtained her Doctorat d’État (PhD) at the University of Sorbonne (Paris) on Royal Statuary of the 19th Dynasty and a habilitation to teach.  

Since 1974, she has worked in Egypt, participating in archaeological missions of Centre Franco-Egyptien Karnak, the Swiss Institute at the temple of Merenptah Thebes, the German Institute of Archaeology in Dahshur and Gurna, the French Mission in Tanis, and the French Institute in Karnak-North.

Since 1998, she has directed ‘The Col