Louis Zabkar

Louis Žabkar was an American Egyptologist who was part of the UNESCO campaign of the 1960s to salvage the monuments threatened by the building of the Aswan Dam. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago where he became director of the Oriental Institute’s excavations of the Middle Kingdom fortress and Meroitic cemeteries at Seman South. His interests included Egyptian religion, Nubian archaeology and Ptolemaic languages. He became Professor of Egyptology at Brandeis University, Massachusetts in 1969, where he taught until his retirement in 1984. He died in 1994.