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Labib Habachi
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<h2 id="tell-el-daba">Tell el-Dab'a</h2> <p>Born to a <a href="/facts/Copts/8WUut9kG">Coptic</a> family, between 1929 and 1939, <a href="/facts/Pierre_Montet/Q2m4Wp3B">Pierre Montet</a> excavated at <a href="/facts/Tanis/wgkEcK8o">Tanis</a>, finding the royal necropolis of the <a href="/facts/Twenty-first_dynasty_of_Egypt/oppk6jRe">Twenty-first</a> and <a href="/facts/Twenty-second_dynasty_of_Egypt/qM0YChkM">Twenty-second</a> Dynasties — the finds there almost equalled that of <a href="/facts/Tutankhamun/lD17fY2r">Tutankhamun</a>'s tomb in the <a href="/facts/Valley_of_the_Kings/HSRFL5hP">Valley of the Kings</a>. He believed that he found the location of <a href="/facts/Avaris/NJVPRclv">Avaris</a>, and this opinion was widely accepted at the time. </p><p>Yet Habachi was not convinced. In 1941-42 he worked at <a href="/facts/Tell_el-Dab%2527a/QTNLPy6F">Tell el-Dab'a</a> for the <a href="/facts/Egyptian_Antiquities_Service/zXIg21Qy">Egyptian Antiquities Service</a> and came to the conclusion that this was in fact Avaris. </p> <blockquote><p>When a detailed study of the topography of the site and its surroundings was made by <a href="/facts/Manfred_Bietak/E1xlVA7q">Manfred Bietak</a> of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in the 1980s, Habachi's hypothesis was confirmed. Bietak's mission revealed that the actual <a href="/facts/Hyksos/ovB4Sp5J">Hyksos</a> capital was indeed Tell al-Dab'a.</p>— <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></blockquote> <h2 id="works-selection">Works (selection)</h2> <ul><li>"Khata'na-Qantir: importance". <i>Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte</i>, LII(1) (1952), p. 443-562</li> <li><i>Tell Basta</i>. SASAE, cahier 22. Cairo, 1957</li> <li>with Henry Riad: <i>Aswan: the town with a glorious past and a promising future</i>. Cairo, 1959</li> <li><i>Features of the deification of Ramesses II</i>. ADAIK, 5. Glückstadt, 1969</li> <li><i>The second Stela of Kamose and his struggle against the Hyksos ruler and his capital</i>. ADAIK, 8. Glückstadt, 1972</li> <li><i>The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past</i>. Scribner's Sons, 1977</li> <li>with Pierre Anus: <i>Le tombeau de Naÿ à Gournet Marʻeï (no. 271)</i>. Cairo, 1977</li> <li><i>Sixteen studies on lower Nubia</i>. SASAE, cahier 23. Cairo, 1981</li> <li><i>Elephantine IV. The sanctuary of Heqaib</i> (2 vols.). ADAIK, 33. Mainz, 1985</li> <li><i>Studies on the Middle Kingdom</i>. Studia Aegyptiaca, 10. Budapest, 1987</li> <li>with Zakī Tāwaḍrūs: في صحراء العرب والأديرة الشرقية. الحلقة الأولى. في الآثار الشرقية / تأليف لبيب حبشي، زكي تاوضروس (<i>Fī ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArab wa-al-adyirah al-sharqīyah: al-ḥalqah al-úlá fī al-āthār al-Qibṭīyah</i>). Maktabat Madbūlī (Cairo), 1993</li></ul> <p>Full bibliography in J. Kamil, <i>Labib Habachi</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="decorations-and-awards">Decorations and awards</h2> <ul><li>1953 Member of the <a href="/facts/German_Archaeological_Institute/qAmu7fnm">German Archaeological Institute</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>1964 Member of the <a href="/facts/Institut_d%2527%25C3%2589gypte/ThFg6IPm">Institut d'Égypte</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>1965 the Egyptology Institute of <a href="/facts/Charles_University/auLIgrty">Charles University</a> in Prague<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>1983 Honorary Member of the Société Française d'Egypte.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Egyptian state award and a medal for the first class in the humanities and natural sciences,</li> <li>1959 <a href="/facts/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Italian_Republic/mQ8X6Qfy">Order of Merit of the Italian Republic</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>1966 Honorary doctorate from <a href="/facts/New_York_University/4UnIkThy">New York University</a></li> <li>1973 Order of Merit of the <a href="/facts/Legion_of_Honour/XmLQTz71">Legion of Honour</a> (France)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>1978 Honorary President of the International Association of Coptic Studies<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>1980 <a href="/facts/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art%2c_1st_class/h8Mh0k6k">Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>1981 recipient of <i>Festschrift</i> (MDAIK 37), presented at the German Archaeological Institute<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <ul><li>Kamil, Jill: <i>Labib Habachi: The Life and legacy of an Egyptologist</i>. American University in Cairo Press, (2007). <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5743%2Fcairo%2F9789774160615">10.5743/cairo/9789774160615</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-977-416-061-5. <a href="/facts/JSTOR_(identifier)/YTeVmaJ7">JSTOR</a> <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15m7n0x">j.ctt15m7n0x</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Kamil, Jill: Labib Habachi: The Life and legacy of an Egyptologist. p. 77. Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=L9uwmW4vUUAC&pg=PA77" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=L9uwmW4vUUAC&pg=PA77</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Kamil, Jill: Labib Habachi: The Life and legacy of an Egyptologist. p. 77. Archived 2013-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=L9uwmW4vUUAC&pg=PA77" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=L9uwmW4vUUAC&pg=PA77</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Habachi, Labib". Griffith Institute Archive. Retrieved 2024-11-01. <a href="https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi" target="_blank">https://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/habachi-habachi</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>