Roland de Vaux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roland de Vaux

French archaeologist

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1903

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1971

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Father Roland Guérin de Vaux OP (17 December 1903 – 10 September 1971) was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
He was the director of the Ecole Biblique, a French Catholic Theological School in East Jerusalem, and he was charged with overseeing research on the scrolls.
His team excavated the ancient site of Khirbet Qumran (1951–1956) as well as several caves near Qumran northwest of the Dead Sea.
The excavations were led by Ibrahim El-Assouli, caretaker of the Palestine Archaeological Museum, or what came to be known as the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.