My family ended up abroad not because my parents made a conscious decision to emigrate. This is the former Roman colony of Lugdunum, from which the ancient theatre on Fourviere Hill and other buildings remained. The city of Lyon itself, where I was born and raised, is also very ancient. As for our contemporaries, such figures as the poet Georges Moustaki, the singers Dalida and Claude Francois, and the actor Omar Sharif are all from Egypt they were born there and often talked about it. It happens that this year marks the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean-Francois Champollion. I was born in France, and this country is very closely connected with both ancient and modern Egypt. How did you become interested in Egyptology? John’s College, the attitude of modern Egyptians towards the pyramids, and his hope of uniting Russian and Western Egyptological traditions. In this interview with the HSE University Age-mates project, he spoke about the Horus on the Crocodiles stele, the emblems and gilding of St. Alexander Loktionov was born in Lyon, studied and works in Cambridge, and in 2022 launched a new Egyptology programme at the HSE Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies (IOCS).
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