Claude Traunecker
Claude Traunecker, one of the world’s foremost authorities on ancient Egyptian religion, is director of the Institut d’Egyptologie at the University of Strasbourg. He is the author of Coptos: Hommes et dieux sur le parvis de Geb and coauthor of Karnak: Résurrection d’un site and Le Caire. David Lorton, an Egyptologist, has translated other Cornell books, including The Twilight of Ancient Egypt: First Millennium B.C.E. by Karol Mysliwiec and The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann.