Henri Louis Marie Alexandre Gauthier (19 September 1877 – 1950[1]) was a FrenchEgyptologist and geographer. In 1903 he entered theFrench Institute of Oriental Archaeology of Cairo. He made extensive excavations atDra Abu el-Naga andEl Qattah (1904),[1] and devoted himself to work on both historical and geographical[2] issues of Ancient Egypt. In 1909 he was part of a French team which discoveredHuni's Pyramid inElephantine, and discovered a largegranite conical object with an inscription revealing the name of the pharaohHuni of the3rd dynasty of theOld Kingdom.[3] Gauthier worked withGaston Maspero[4] who asked him to copy the inscriptions of theNubian temples ofAmada,Kalabsha andWadi es-Sebua.
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