Exploring, restoring, excavating, preserving, mapping, analyzing and decoding all the lost secrets of the Pharaohs! Father Sicard –The French Jesuit who rediscovered Thebes – and mapped Egypt Certainly, the French have made a particularly outstanding impact - revealing what’s under the sands of Egypt and a great deal more.
Over the last 200 years, however, it was foreign teams – British, German, French, Czech, Polish, American etc.- leading most excavations. It’s high time! Native Egyptians have finally climbed to the “top of the pyramid” on archaeology digs – taking pride and ownership of their own great heritage. Today in Egypt, so many brilliant Egypt-born Egyptologists lead important excavations.
Jean Francois Champollion made our #2 spot
