Misplaced Pages

Hussein Bassir

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Egyptian archaeologist
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous.
Find sources: "Hussein Bassir" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (June 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
(Learn how and when to remove this message)

Dr Hussein Bassir was an Egyptian archaeologist of Giza Pyramids and one of the directors (field director) of the excavation team in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. In 1994, he got his BA in Egyptology from Cairo University. In 2009, he got his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is also the author of several works of fiction in Arabic on ancient Egypt such as In Search for Khnum and The Old Red Hippopotamus. Bassir worked as a member of several archaeological teams and participated in many archaeological excavations in sites all over Egypt. His written works include commentaries on Arabic literature, Arabic cinema, Egyptology and Archaeology. He is the Director of Antiquities Museum at the Library of Alexandria.

Related links

Categories: