Pierre Montet
Jean Pierre Marie Montet (27 June 1885 – 19 June 1966) was a French Egyptologist.
Born~Died Jun 27, 1885 ~ Jun 18, 1966Last edited Oct 15, 2026, 5:13 PM
Jean Pierre Marie Montet (27 June 1885 – 19 June 1966) was a French Egyptologist.1
Biography
Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, and began his studies under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon.2
He and Jules Barthoux worked in Cairo together in 1911.3
He was awarded the Commander of the Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his work during WWI.4
He excavated at Byblos in Lebanon between 1920 and 1924.4 During his time there, he excavated 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: those finds almost equalled that of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
In the 1939–1940 Egypt excavation season, he discovered the completely-intact tombs of three Egyptian pharaohs at Tanis: Psusennes I, Amenemope, and Shoshenq II along with the partially plundered tomb of Takelot I. 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 tomb of as well as the partly plundered tomb of this king's son, Prince . The start of 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 , (literally the Commander-in-Chief of the Army) who served under Psusennes I, in 1946. He also discovered two of the wells within the Amoun temple.
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