Édouard Naville
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Henri Édouard Naville was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar.
c. 1917
Statue of Ramesses II found by Naville at Bubastis, on display at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva
Egypt Exploration Society
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The Egypt Exploration Society is a British non-profit organisation founded in 1882 for the purpose of supporting and promoting Egyptian cultural heritage. It was founded by novelist and travel writer
Édouard Naville
…a captain in the Swiss army. His early work concerned the solar texts and the Book of the Dead. In 1882 he was invited to work for the newly founded Egypt Exploration Fund. He excavated a number of sites in the Nile Delta including Tell el-Maskhuta (1882), the Wadi Tumilat (1885–86), Bubastis (1886–89), Tell el-Yahudiyeh…
Amelia Edwards in America, 1890