Émile Gaston Chassinat | |
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Born |
Paris |
May 5, 1868
Died | May 26, 1948 Saint-Germain-en-Laye |
(aged 80)
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Egyptologist |
Émile Gaston Chassinat (May 5, 1868 - May 26, 1948) was a French Egyptologist. Director of the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo in Cairo from 1898/9 to 1911/2, Chassinat acquired two of the Amarna tablets in 1903.