Sydney Hervé Aufrère
Sydney Hervé Aufrère (born July 2, 1951, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS. From 1973 to 1976 he worked in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum, then for sixteen months (1976-1977), the "Centre for Documentation of Ancient Egypt" (CEDA), Cairo. He participated from 1976 to 1980 in archaeological expeditions in the Valley of the Queens (Tuya's tomb QV80) and the Ramesseum. From 1981 to 1983 he was assistant teacher of Egyptian Archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre, then in 1983/84, he was a lecturer  in Egyptian inscriptions of the same school. From 1985 to 1989, he was a scientific member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, and participated in excavations. In 1991, he was appointed director of research at CNRS, and was affiliated with the Université Paul Valéry from 1991 to 2005. From 1992 to 2003 he supervised the unit that specializes in texts from the Ptolemaic period. Since October 2005 he has been affiliated with the University of Provence-Aix-Marseille.