Pierre Lacau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Lacau

French Egyptologist

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1873

Place of Birth: Brie-Comte-Robert, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1963

Profession: professor, egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Pierre Lacau (25 November 1873 – 26 March 1963) was a French Egyptologist and philologist.
He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter.