Labib Habachi

Labib Habachi (لبيب حبشي) (1984–1906) was an influential Egyptian Egyptologist.

Dr Habachi spent 30 years in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian Government, ending his career as Chief inspector. During this period he spent an enormous amount of time in numerous dig sites in Egypt and the Sudan. He left government work to accept a position at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago as an Archaeological Consultant to its Nubian Expedition.

Works

• Habachi (1977). The Obelisks of Egypt: Skyscrapers of the Past. Scribner.

• Aswan : the town with a glorious past and a promising future / by Labib Habachi ; Henry Riad.
• Features of the deification of Ramesses II / [by] Labib Habachi.
• Fī ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArab wa-al-adyirah al-sharqīyah / taʼlīf Labīb Ḥabashī, Zakī Tāwaḍrūs.
• KHATA'NA-QANTIR; IMPORTANCE
• LABIB HABACHI MISCELLANEA; A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES ON EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES BY LABIB HABACHI
• The sanctuary of Heqaib / by Labib Habachi, with contributions by Gerhard Haeny and Friedrich Junge ; photographs by Dieter Jo
• The second Stela of Kamose and his struggle against the Hyksos ruler and his capital / [by] Labib Habachi.
• Sixteen studies on lower Nubia / by Labib Habachi.
• Studies on the Middle Kingdom / Labib Habachi.
• Tell Basta / by Labib Habachi
• Le tombeau de Naÿ à Gournet Marʻeï (no. 271) / Labib Habachi, Pierre Anus.

References

• Kamil, Jil. Labib Habachi: The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist. American University in Cairo Press.