Word: montet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Pierre Montet, 80, internationally respected French archaeologist who, after finding the world's oldest alphabetical inscription at a Lebanon site in 1922, went on to spend 20 years excavating at the Nile Delta town of Tanis, onetime capital of ancient Egypt, uncovering through the years three mummies of Pharaohs from the 21st and 22nd dynasties, their gold death masks and silver sarcophagi still intact; of pulmonary congestion; in Paris...