Ambrose  Lansing  ( 20.09.1891  -  28.05.1959 )

Ambrose Lansing was an American Egyptologist. Born in Egypt, he went to the United States for the first time as a teenager in 1904. He studied in Leipzig before the First World War (1912–1914) under Georg Steindorff. He led a museum curator career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he worked first in 1911, later becoming assistant curator of the Department of Egyptian Art in 1922–1926, associate curator in 1926–1939, and finally curator from 1939. He led archaeological fieldwork on behalf of the museum at numerous sites, including Hierakonpolis in 1934. There, he was primarily interested in the Old Kingdom; while searching for remains dating to that period, he found predynastic structures: tombs around the so-called Fort of Khasekhemui (today's cemetery HK27). Further up-wadi, he cleared a kiln (HK11), a rock shelter (HK11), and a large-sized rock-cut tomb (HK6, Tomb 2).