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Maspero

[ mas-puh-roh ]

noun

  1. Sir Gas·ton Ca·mille Charles [gas-, tawn, ka-, mee, -y, uh, sharl], 1846–1916, French Egyptologist.


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That evening became known as the Maspero Massacre, a reference to the state TV building around which the marchers gathered.

I met him at the Coptic Hospital when I went to visit the Maspero injured.

His leg had been smashed—not in Maspero but in an earlier clash with the military in March.

Such men as Breasted of Chicago, and Maspero, would probably take from three hundred to five hundred years from this date.

The following paragraphs taken from the history of M. Maspero give all the necessary information in a brief form.

When cross-examined by such questioners as M. Maspero the pyramids will tell us much.

In such general explanations as are unavoidable we shall content ourselves with paraphrasing M. Maspero.

See the fine hymns quoted and translated by M. Maspero in his Histoire ancienne, pp. 30-37.

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Masoreticmas. pil.