Jean-Philippe Lauer

Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902 – 2001) was a French architect and Egyptologist.

Biography[edit | edit source]

Lauer devoted his life to exploring Djoser's funerary complex. In 1934, he found a left foot inside Djoser's Step Pyramid, which he believed belonged to the pharaoh whose mummy was never found.^[1]

Appearances[edit | edit source]

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt (appears in photo only)

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt – Inside Djoser's Step Pyramid: "Djoser and Jean-Philippe Lauer"

Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt

People

Mythical	Amun • Anubis • Apis • Bastet • Hathor • Horus • Iset • Khnum • Neith • Nephthys • Osiris • Ptah • Ra • Sekhmet • Serapis • Sheshat • Seth • Sobek • Thoth \| Apollo • Asclepius • Cyrene • Demeter • Hercules • Nike • Pan • Perseus • Zeus \| Fortuna

29th-12th century BCE	Djoser • Hetepheres I • Imhotep • Sneferu \| Djedefre • Khafre • Khufu • Menkaure • Shepseskaf \| Mereruka \| Mentuhotep II \| Amenemhat III \| Amenhotep II • Hatshepsut \| Amenhotep III • Thutmose IV • Tutankhamun \| Ramesses II

7th-1st century BCE	Battos Aristottle \| Amasis II • Arcesilaus II • Pythagoras \| Herodotus • Pindar • Socrates \| Alexander the Great • Aristippos • Aristotle • Deinokrates • Eubotas of Cyrene • Philip II • Plato \| Berenice II • Eratosthenes • Euclid • Herophilos • Kallimachos • Ptolemy I Soter • Ptolemy III Euergetes \| Ptolemy V Epiphanes • Ptolemy VIII Physcon \| Achillas • Arsinoë IV • Augustus • Caesarion • Cleopatra • Ganymedes • Julius Caesar • Mark Antony • Mithridates • Octavia • Pompey • Pothinus • Ptolemy X Alexander I • Ptolemy XII Auletes • Ptolemy XIII • Ptolemy XIV • Spartacus

1st-12th century	Andrew the Apostle • Plutarch • Tiberius \| Hadrian • Marcus Aurelius • Trajan \| Diocletian \| Hypatia • Theodosius I \| Justinian I \| Al-Ma'mun

18th-21st century	Napoleon Bonaparte \| Auguste Mariette • Gaston Maspero • Giovanni Battista Caviglia • Jean-François Champollion • Karl Richard Lepsius \| Ahmed Youssef • Alan Gardiner • Jean-Philippe Lauer • Mark Lehner \| Jean-Claude Golvin