Auguste Mariette

François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette (1821 – 1881) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist. 
==Biography==
In 1858, the created the where Mariette, supported by a team of foreign scholars, exerted an iron grip. He carried out his work across Egypt and into Nubia, intervening on almost every major site.Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – Rediscovering Egypt: "Early Organization" In the same year, Mariette discovered the Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – The Riddles of the Sphinx: "The Importance of Red" and requested a museum be created for keeping unearthed artifacts in Egypt.
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