# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pierre-lacau
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:45:30.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pierre-lacau"
name: "Pierre Lacau"
slug: "pierre-lacau"
description: "Pierre Lacau was a French Egyptologist and philologist. He served as Egypt's director of antiquities from 1914 until 1936, and oversaw the 1922 discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter."
tagline: "French archaeologist and egyptologist (1873–1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pierre_Lacau.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1873-11-25"
deathDate: "1963-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             7.453450164293536
  historical:           8.078834666666665
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "بيير لاكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "بيير لاكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Lacau"
    title: "Pierre Lacau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3297026"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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