Jean-Pierre Corteggiani

Jean-Pierre Corteggiani is director of the scientific and technical relations of IFAO.

In 1993, a dam must-being built on the supposed site of the headlight of Alexandria. A rescue operation is entrusted to Jean-Yves Empereur and Jean-Pierre Corteggiani in order to undertake an excavation campaign.

For seventeen years, he has encouraged work of Gilles Dormion and Jean-Yves Verd' hurt, two impassioned French of Egyptology, who think of having bored one of the greatest mysteries of the Pyramide of Khéops, by affirming to have located an unknown part located under the room known as of the queen. It could be the true funerary room of the Pharaon Khéops, of which the forever found mummy; “Difficult to refuse obviousnesses based on facts, logic”, he says.

For documentary a coproduit by Video Sprint Production, Newton and the Town of Agde, under the aegis of the Supreme council of Egyptian Antiquities, at the time of the great exposure “ Egypt, Vision of Eternity ” which was held from September 10th, 1999 to January 8th, 2000 with the Musée of the Beautiful young man of the Cape of Agde (: 200000 visitors), documentary presenting 3000 years of beliefs of the ancient Egypt, of the first dynasties at the Roman period, it explains the bases of this religion disappeared and its evolution through the millenia. 120 parts coming from the museum of Cairo, among which the fabulous gilded mask of the Pharaon Psousennès {{Ier}}, illustrate its matter.

In 2001, the Price Jean-Edouard Goby, Institute of France, is decreed to him for its work on ancient Egypt.

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