Eugène Grébaut (1846 – 8 January 1915) was a FrenchEgyptologist.[1] Grébaut made significant discoveries in the complex ofmortuary temples and tombs located atDeir el-Bahari including severalEgyptian mummies of thetwenty-first Dynasty.[2]
In 1883, he succeededEugène Lefébure as a director of theInstitut Français d'Archéologie Orientale inCairo. Three years later, he succeededGaston Maspero as the director of theDépartement des antiquités égyptiennes, a position he maintained up until 1892. Afterwards, he worked as a lecturer ofancient history at theSorbonne inParis.[3]
He was the author of "Hymne à Ammon-Ra des papyrus égyptiens du Musée de Boulaq" (1874).[4]
Grébaut was one of the people working on clearing the sands from aroundthe Great Sphinx.[5] "In the beginning of the year 1887, the chest, the paws, the altar, and the plateau were all made visible. Flights of steps were unearthed, and finally accurate measurements were taken of the great figures. The height from the lowest of the steps was found to be one hundred feet, and the space between the paws was found to be thirty-five feet long and ten feet wide. Here there was formerly an altar; and a stele ofThûtmosis IV was discovered, recording a dream in which he was ordered to clear away the sand that even then was gathering round the site of the Sphinx."[6]
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