26 Facts About Pahor Labib

Pahor Labib was Director of the Coptic Museum, Cairo, Egypt, from 1951 to 1965 and one of the world leaders in Egyptology and Coptology.

Pahor Labib's father was Cladius Labib, an Egyptologist and Coptologist who was one of the first Egyptians to learn Hieroglyphics from the French Egyptologists in Egypt and who compiled a Coptic-Arabic dictionary.

Pahor Labib grew up in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, where his father had a house with a few acres of land that were used to cultivate fruits and vegetables.

For preparatory school Labib went to the "Great Coptic School" and then to Khedivieh Secondary School, both in Cairo.

Pahor Labib was sent for higher studies to Berlin, Germany in 1930.

Pahor Labib showed that the Hyksos stayed in Egypt for 150 years and that they came from Canaan.

Pahor Labib was the first Egyptian to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology.

Pahor Labib returned to Egypt and was appointed Lecturer in the Institute of Archeology at Cairo University in 1935.

Pahor Labib was later appointed director of the provincial museums, during which period he established a few museums around the country, and expanded the Aswan Museum.

Pahor Labib was instrumental in transferring the Ismaila Museum from the Suez Canal Company to the administration of the Department of Antiquity.

Pahor Labib was chosen as acting director of the Egyptian Museum in the summer of 1964 to investigate the disappearance of a piece of Tutankhamun's treasures.

Pahor Labib remained acting director of the Egyptian Museum for a year.

Pahor Labib was one of the first to use the word "Coptology".

Pahor Labib started the excavations in Abu Mena, Western Desert in 1951.

Pahor Labib was involved with excavations in "Tel-Atrib", near the city of Banha in Lower Egypt; the site of a great Cathedral before the Arab invasion.

Pahor Labib contributed to the study of the Nag Hammadi texts.

Pahor Labib was a secretary, vice president, and president of this committee.

Pahor Labib believed that this philosophy is Egyptian in origin and presented a paper on the subject to the First International Congress of Coptology in Cairo in 1976.

Pahor Labib served on many committees both nationally and internationally owing to his expertise in many fields.

Pahor Labib served on many committees for Archeology and Tourism, including one for Coptic Tourism.

Pahor Labib further served on the management boards of the Coptic and Islamic Museums in Cairo and on the council for "Greater Cairo".

Pahor Labib was a council member of the Coptic Archeology Institute and a founding member of the Institute of Coptic Studies and La Societe de Saint Minas Le Miraculeux.

Pahor Labib was a founding member and President of the National Society of Art and served on the Council of the Society "Des Amis des Arts".

Pahor Labib taught at the University, both Egyptology and Coptic Language, especially the Hieroglyphic origins of Coptic words.

Pahor Labib was a member of the German Institute of Archeology, Berlin, and the Archeology Institute of the University of Prague, and the UNESCO Committee for Museums.

Pahor Labib was awarded the Decoration of the High Cross from Germany in 1976.