Profiles
After Napoleon's expedition to Egypt various scientist and explorers from Europe and America came to Egypt. This overview lists great men who - in the past - have contributed enormously to the study of the necropolis of Saqqara.
- Giovanni d'Anastasi (1780-1860)
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823)
- Pieter Adriaan Aart Boeser (1858-1935)
- Heinrich and Emile Brugsch
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)
- Dr Cimba (? -1824)
- Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825)
- Bernardino Michele Maria Drovetti (1776-1852)
- Walter Bryan Emery (1903-1971)
- Cecil Mallaby Firth (1878-1931)
- Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946)
- Adolf Klasens (1917-1998)
- Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902-2001)
- Conradus Leemans (1809-1893)
- Richard Lepsius (1810-1884)
- Jean-Baptiste de Lescluze (1780-1858)
- François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821-1881)
- Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (1846-1916)
- William Matthew Finders Petrie (1853-1942)
- James Edward Quibell (1867-1935)
- Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (1793-1835)
- Henry Salt (1780-1827)
- Willem Dirk van Wijngaarden (1893-1980)