WATANI International24 July 2011   Christiane Desroches was born in Paris in 1913. As a child, she was fascinated by the treasures of the pharaohs, especially by Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922. Christiane’s father wished her to study 18th-century art but she said, “that bored me stiff”. Instead, she studied hieroglyphics, archaeology … Continue reading The Frenchwoman Egypt lost