!!!Bietak, Manfred

Bietak, Manfred, b. Vienna, Oct. 6, 1940, archaeologist. 
Studied in Vienna; 1961-1965 participated in the UNESCO campaign to 
save Nubian antiquities in Sayala, from 1965 campaign director; 
1966-1969 and since 1975 head of the University of Vienna excavations 
in Tell el-Dab´a, 1969-1978 head of excavations in western 
Thebes. 1966-1981 secretary and scientific advisor at the Austrian 
Embassy in Cairo; from 1973 Director of the Austrian Archaeological 
Institute in Cairo. Since 1986 Chairman of the Department of 
Egyptology at the University of Vienna. Identified Avaris, the capital 
of Hyksos, as well as the city of Ramses, where he discovered a palace 
with Minoan wall paintings.

!Publications
Studien zur Chronologie der nubischen C-Gruppe, 1968; 
Tell el-Dab´a, 1991; Zwischen den beiden Ewigkeiten. Festschrift 
fuer G. Thausing, 1994 (ed.); Archaische griechische Tempel und 
Altaegypten, 2001 (ed.).


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