Pierre Tallet
{{short description|French egyptologist}}
Pierre Tallet (born in 1966) is a French Egyptologist, most famous for discovering the Diary of Merer.{{Cite journal|last=Barina|first=Mark|date=2018|title=GIZA PYRAMIDS|journal=Discover|volume=39|issue=6|pages=30}} He served as president of the French Society of Egyptology from 2009 to 2017.{{Citation|title=Pierre Tallet|date=2019-08-11|url=https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pierre_Tallet&oldid=161741412|work=Wikipédia|language=fr|access-date=2019-11-19}}
Publications
Tallet has authored various books and academic papers involving the Great Pyramid of Giza. Below is a full list of his works, some of which he collaborated on with other authors and have been translated from French to English. These publications are according to the National Library of France and the Library of Congress.{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb14469176b|title=Notice de personne|last=France|first=National Library of|date=2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002114781.html|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|last=Congress|first=The Library of|website=id.loc.gov|access-date=2019-11-19}}
- 2003, Egypt: All that we know and how we know it
- 2003, The inscriptions of Ayn Soukhna
- 2003, The Cooking of the Pharaohs
- 2005, Sesostris III and the end of the XII th Dynasty
- 2006, At the table of the Pharaohs, tastes of yesterday and recipes of today
- 2009, The Red Sea on Pharaonic Times
- 2011, Ayn Soukhna II . The metallurgical workshops of the Middle Kingdom
- 2012, The mining area of South Sinai I
- 2013, 12 queens of Egypt who changed the story
- 2015, The mining area of South Sinai II
- 2015, Between Nile and Seas. Navigation in ancient Egypt
- 2016, Ayn Sukhna III . The shopping gallery complex
- 2017, From Sinai to Sudan. Routes of an Egyptologist
- 2017, The Red Sea Papyrus
- 2018, The Pharaonic Mining Area of South Sinai III . Egyptian dynastic shipments at the end of the XX th Dynasty
- 2022, The Red Sea Scrolls, How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids
Discovery of Merer's Diary
{{Main|Diary of Merer}}
Tallet and his team discovered the oldest Egyptian papyri known to man in 2013, under a set of caves.{{Cite journal|last=Stille|first=Alexander|date=2015|title=THE POWER AND THE GLORY|journal=Smithsonian|volume=46|issue=6|pages=26–28, 30–31, 34–37}} Tallet attempted to translate this text into English and he concluded that Merer and his large group had the job of transporting thousands of limestone blocks via ship across the River Nile.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/lost-secrets-of-the-pyramids|title=Secrets of the Pyramids (TV Documentary)|date=2018|website=CBC}} This discovery is particularly vital in the modern study of the Great Pyramid, especially as Merer was previously an unknown figure in the study of the Great Pyramid.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancient-code.com/revealed-4500-year-old-papyrus-that-details-the-construction-of-the-great-pyramid/|title=Revealed: 4,500-year-old Papyrus that details the construction of the Great Pyramid|last=Petricevic|first=Ivan|date=2016|website=Ancient Code|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-19}}
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Category:Members of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale