Maspero, Gaston Camille Charles (1846-1916)

French Egyptologist. He discovered many royal sarcophagi at Deir el-Bahri and made further discoveries in clearing the temple of Karnak. His most notable publication is Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique/Ancient History of the Egyptians 1895-99.

He became lecturer on Egyptian archaeology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes 1869, and was a professor at the Collège de France. After succeeding the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette as director of the Service des Antiquités in Egypt, he was responsible for cataloguing the museum in Cairo.