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Study of the wall reliefs and other decorated architectural elements of the temple of Amenhotep III (c. BC) in Kom el-Hettan (Luxor, Egypt)

Dr. Hourig Sourouzian is an Egyptologist and Art Historian.

Hourig sourouzian biography definition The National Organization. Site Map. Hourig Sourouzian is Armenian by birth and German by nationality. Sourouzian opened her lecture by noting that the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III is listed among the most endangered monuments in the world by the World Monuments Fund. Since , she has been working, first on emergency conservation of the Colossi and Temple, and since as Director of the project which she hopes will result in the long term conservation and restoration of both the Colossi and the Temple.

She is also a corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and the ICOMOS Armenia. Her diploma is from École du Louvre (Paris) with her dissertation on The Monuments of King Merenptah. She has a degree from the École des Langues Orientales.  Later, she obtained her Doctorat d’État (PhD) at the University of Sorbonne (Paris) on Royal Statuary of the 19th Dynasty and a habilitation to teach.

 

Since , she has worked in Egypt, participating in archaeological missions of Centre Franco-Egyptien Karnak, the Swiss Institute at the temple of Merenptah Thebes, the German Institute of Archaeology in Dahshur and Gurna, the French Mission in Tanis, and the French Institute in Karnak-North.

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Since , she has directed ‘The Colossi of Memnon and Amenhotep III Temple Conservation Project’ in Luxor. This project is under the auspices of the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt and the German Institute of Archaeology and in cooperation with the Armenian Academy of Sciences.

She specialises in Egyptian art, mainly Egyptian sculpture.

For an ARCE/EAP project, she reassembled the Monumental Statue group of Amon and Mut from Karnak in the Cairo Museum and is the author of several statue joins between museums and temples.

She was a guest professor at the American University in Cairo, the Universities of Munich and Vienna, the Collège de France and the Sorbonne in Paris.

She is a lecturer at Egyptian institutes of major universities and in Egyptian museums on Egyptian art and her research in statuary. She is the co-author of the Cairo Museum’s Catalogue and the author of numerous articles and reports on Egyptian art and archaeology, as well as contributing to exhibition catalogues on her works in Egypt and Armenia.

In the s and again in  she was an advisor in cultural and educational affairs at the Armenian Embassy in Cairo.