Pierre Lacau
French egyptologist
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Pierre Lacau was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter. Wikipedia
Born: November 25, 1873, Brie-Comte-Robert, France
Died: March 26, 1963 (age 89 years), Paris, France