Auguste Mariette - A Man with a Mission

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/he1.htm
An article about the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, who established the first Egyptian Museum and carried out many of the early excavations in Egypt. There is, in addition, a wonderful photograp of the main hall at the Bouleq (first Egyptian) museum, before it moved first to Giza and then to its present location at Tahrir Square, at http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/he2.htm