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Jean Yoyotte was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who specialized in the study of the ancient Near East. He was born on 4 August 1927 in Lyon, France. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the University of Strasbourg. Yoyotte was a professor at the University of Strasbourg from 1965 to 1992, and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1971. He was a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres, and was awarded the Prix Delalande-Guérineau in 1988. Yoyotte was an expert in the history and archaeology of the ancient Near East, particularly the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. He wrote numerous books and articles on the subject, including The Ancient Near East (1972), The History of Ancient Egypt (1975), and The History of Ancient Mesopotamia (1977). Yoyotte died on 8 April 2010 in Strasbourg, France, at the age of 82.

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Occupation Egyptologist
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 4 August 1927
Birthday 4 August
Birthplace Lyon, France
Date of death (2009-07-01) Paris, France
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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2009

Jean Yoyotte died in Paris on 1 July 2009, aged 81.

1965

From 1965–85 he was director of the French excavations at Tanis in the eastern Nile Delta; he organized a major exhibition of the results of these excavations in 1987 at the Grand Palais in Paris. In 1992 he was appointed to the chair of Egyptology at the Collège de France, a position which he held until 2000.

1964

He participated with other colleagues committed to the left (Elena Cassin, Maxime Rodinson, Maurice Godelier, Charles Malamoud, André-Georges Haudricourt, Jean-Paul Brisson, Jean Bottéro) in a Marxist think tank organised by Jean-Pierre Vernant. This group took on an institutional form with the creation, in 1964, of the Centre des recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, which later became the Centre Louis Gernet, focusing more on the study of ancient Greece.

1927

Jean Yoyotte (4 August 1927 – 1 July 2009) was a French Egyptologist, Professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France and director of research at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE).

Born in 1927 at Lyon, he attended the Lycée Henri-IV where he befriended Serge Sauneron who later became director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO). Later he attended a course at the École du Louvre under the supervision of Jacques Vandier, and later studied at the EPHE. Around 1949, he conducted researches at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and in the interval 1952–56 he was in Cairo at the IFAO. In 1964 he became director of research for ancient Egyptian religion at the EPHE, where he was a student a few decades earlier.

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