About Labib Habachi
Lived 1906 – 1984 (aged 77). Labib Habachi was an Egyptian and Turkish egyptologist and archaeologist.
Works (selection) "Khata'na-Qantir: importance". Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte, LII(1) (1952), p. 443-562 Tell Basta. SASAE, cahier 22. Cairo, 1957 with Henry Riad: Aswan: the town with a glorious past and a promising future. Cairo, 1959 Features of the deification of Ramesses II. ADAIK, 5. Glückstadt, 1969 The second Stela of Kamose and his struggle against the Hyksos ruler and his capital. ADAIK, 8. Glückstadt, 1972 The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past. Scribner's Sons, 1977 with Pierre Anus: Le tombeau de Naÿ à Gournet Marʻeï (no. 271). Cairo, 1977 Sixteen studies on lower Nubia. SASAE, cahier 23. Cairo, 1981 Elephantine IV. The sanctuary of Heqaib (2 vols.). ADAIK, 33. Mainz, 1985 Studies on the Middle Kingdom. Studia Aegyptiaca, 10. Budapest, 1987 with Zakī Tāwaḍrūs: في صحراء العرب والأديرة الشرقية. الحلقة الأولى. في الآثار الشرقية / تأليف لبيب حبشي، زكي تاوضروس (Fī ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArab wa-al-adyirah al-sharqīyah: al-ḥalqah al-úlá fī al-āthār al-Qibṭīyah). Maktabat Madbūlī (Cairo), 1993
Full bibliography in J. Kamil, Labib Habachi.
Decorations and awards 1953 Member of the German Archaeological Institute 1964 Member of the Institut d'Égypte 1965 the Egyptology Institute of Charles University in Prague 1983 Honorary Member of the Société Française d'Egypte. Egyptian state award and a medal for the first class in the humanities and natural sciences, 1959 Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 1966 Honorary doctorate from New York University 1973 Order of Merit of the Legion of Honour (France) 1978 Honorary President of the International Association for Coptic Studies 1980 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 1981 recipient of Festschrift (MDAIK 37), presented at the German Archaeological Institute
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Who was Labib Habachi?
Egyptian egyptologist (1906-1984)
When was Labib Habachi born?
Labib Habachi was born on 18 April 1906 in Mansoura.
When did Labib Habachi die?
Labib Habachi died on 18 February 1984 in Cairo.
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Labib Habachi was an egyptologist and archaeologist.
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Labib Habachi was Egyptian and Turkish.
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