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Manfred Bietak
Manfred Bietak is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna, Austria and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo , Egypt (Professor der Ägyptologie an der Universität Wien und Leiter des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Kairo).
Bietak is best known as the director of the Austrian excavations at the Delta site of Tell el-Daba'a , site of the Hyksos period and Nineteenth Dynasty capital of Egypt, Piramesse .
He also serves as Editor for the Egyptological journal Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant.
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