# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-chehab
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:47:24.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-chehab"
name: "Maurice Chéhab"
slug: "maurice-chehab"
description: "Emir Maurice Hafez Chehab was a Lebanese archaeologist and museum curator. He was the head of the Antiquities Service in Lebanon and curator of the National Museum of Beirut from 1942 to 1982. He was recognised as the \"father of modern Lebanese archaeology\""
tagline: "Lebanese archaeologist (1904-1994)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-12-27"
deathDate: "1994-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.04
  momentum:             13.33333333333333
  historical:           5.470446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Chehab"
    title: "Maurice Chehab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "موريس حافظ شهاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B8_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "موريس حافظ شهاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B1%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Шехаб, Морис"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ch%C3%A9hab"
    title: "Maurice Chéhab"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%B0%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%98"
    title: "მორის შეჰაბი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16038540"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump