Editorial: Capart, the birth of a project

Jean-Michel BRUFFAERTS
Coordinator of the Capart Project
Scientific Collaborator at the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

When I first heard the name of Jean Capart in 1977, I was far from being able to imagine the role that the founder of Egyptology in Belgium would come to play in my life and even further from suspecting...
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Un rêve de Jean Capart devenu réalité

Les antiquités égyptiennes du roi Léopold II aux Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
Sorry, this entry is only available in French.Les antiquités égyptiennes du roi Léopold II aux Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire Des limbes de l’oubli … À 2h37 en cette nuit du 17 décembre 1909, le Palais de Laeken, résidence privée de la...
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The book : Jean Capart. The Chronicler of Egypt


A biography for the general public, richly illustrated, written by Jean-Michel Bruffaerts, has just been published in French and Dutch. Jean Capart. The Chronicler of Egypt is a biography of Jean Capart (1877-1947), the founder of Belgian Egyptology. Written by the...
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