Christiane Ziegler

Christiane Ziegler (born May 3, 1942 in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), is a French Egyptologist, curator, director emeritus of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum and editorial director of the archaeological mission from the Louvre Museum at Saqqara, Egypt.

Ziegler was a student at the Institut de Science Politique. Studying under the direction of Professor Nicolas Grimal, she is a graduate of Paris-Sorbonne University. She began studying Egyptology with a thesis on the Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III. Ziegler's internship was at the Louvre's Department of Oriental Antiquities.

Ziegler started her career as a high school teacher. She began working at the Louvre in 1972 and her archaeological research at Saqqara began in 1991. She is the author of numerous important scientific articles and books about Egyptology. She has also authored translations of ancient letters from Egypt and Nubia as well as several books on History of Egyptian Art.

"No place, no kingdom of the past fascinates as ancient Egypt. Along the Nile, in the course of millennia, it has developed a culture and an extraordinarily rich monumental art, able to dominate much of the known land. The apex of the rigid hierarchy and religious state of that empire was the pharaoh, whose exploits have been exalted over all Egyptian history to improve the eternal image of a being outside of the ordinary, or beloved of the gods." (C. Ziegler, "Pharaohs", Venice exhibition catalog, September 9, 2002 – May 25, 2003.)

In particular, she has studied the monuments of the time of the pyramids of Ancient Egypt (hieroglyphic inscriptions, statues, paintings and reliefs of the tombs), the various components of the site of Saqqara, metal arts from the Pharaonic period (bronze and silver) and has written a monograph devoted to Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III. A long-time Egyptian archaeology professor at the Ecole du Louvre, Christiane Ziegler also co-directs the department of Egyptian Archaeology.

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