Hermann Junker

German egyptologist (1877-1962) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 84

Hermann Junker was a German archaeologist best known for his discovery of the Merimde-Benisalam site in the West Nile Delta in Lower Egypt in 1928.

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Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Honorary doctorate from the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg

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Germany