Manfred Bietak
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Manfred Bietak is an Austrian archaeologist. He is the current Professor of Egyptology at the University of Vienna and Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute in Cairo (Professor der Ägyptologie an der Universität Wien und Leiter des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Kairo).
Bietak is best known as the director of the Austrian excavations at two sites: the Nile delta site of Tell el-Daba'a, site of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos period; and of neighbouring Piramesse, the Nineteenth Dynasty capital of Egypt.
He also serves as editor for the Egyptological journal Ägypten und Levante ("Egypt and the Levant").
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