Maspero

[ mas-puh-roh ]

/ mas pəˈroʊ /

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Sir Gas·ton Ca·mille Charles

[gas-tawn ka-mee-yuh sharl], /gasˈtɔ̃ kaˈmi yə ʃarl/, 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.

QUIZZES

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Question 1 of 12

On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

That evening became known as the Maspero Massacre, a reference to the state TV building around which the marchers gathered.
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I met him at the Coptic Hospital when I went to visit the Maspero injured.
Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo: Remembering A City Wracked By The Arab Spring|Ahdaf Soueif|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
His leg had been smashed—not in Maspero but in an earlier clash with the military in March.
Ahdaf Soueif’s Cairo: Remembering A City Wracked By The Arab Spring|Ahdaf Soueif|January 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Such men as Breasted of Chicago, and Maspero, would probably take from three hundred to five hundred years from this date.
Education: How Old The New|James J. Walsh

The following paragraphs taken from the history of M. Maspero give all the necessary information in a brief form.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)|Georges Perrot
When cross-examined by such questioners as M. Maspero the pyramids will tell us much.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)|Georges Perrot
In such general explanations as are unavoidable we shall content ourselves with paraphrasing M. Maspero.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)|Georges Perrot
See the fine hymns quoted and translated by M. Maspero in his Histoire ancienne, pp. 30-37.
A history of art in ancient Egypt, Vol. I (of 2)|Georges Perrot