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Henri Frankfort (the 24th of February 1897 - the 16th of July 1954) was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist, and orientalist. He is known for directing excavations at El-Amarna, Abydos, and Armant for the Egypt Exploration Society, for his 1939 work Cylinder Seals, and for his 1948 book Kingship and the Gods, described by scholar John Baines as a classic work.
According to scholar Gary Beckman, Frankfort's most influential work is Cylinder Seals: A Documentary Essay on the Art and Religion of the Ancient Near East, published in 1939. His 1948 book Kingship and the Gods is also considered a classic work in the field.
Frankfort studied history at the University of Amsterdam, then took an MA in 1924 under Sir Flinders Petrie at University College London. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Leiden in 1927.
In 1937, Frankfort and Emil Kraeling identified a female figure on the Burney Relief, dated to around 1700 BCE, as Lilith of later Jewish mythology. This identification is now generally rejected by scholars.
Frankfort was director of excavations for the Egypt Exploration Society of London from 1925 to 1929, field director of the Oriental Institute of Chicago's expedition to Iraq from 1929, and director of the Warburg Institute in London from 1948. He was also elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1948.
Frankfort argued, along with E. A. Wallis Budge, that Egyptian civilization arose from an African rather than an Asian cultural, religious, and ethnic base. This position was considered revolutionary for his time.