Georges Goyon

[1] A senior fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he was King Farouk's private archaeologist.

[2] A student and disciple of Pierre Montet,[3] Goyon led, early in his career, the construction of a gigantic granite monument at Ismaïlia for the Suez Canal Company.

For twenty years he led the work of excavation of Tanis and inspected the stones of the Great Pyramid of Cheops to which he practically dedicated his life to, but also did a vast amount of work on the inscriptions and graffiti on the Great Pyramid, making a number of important discoveries especially in the 1940s.

[4][5] In 1946, Goyon discovered an "abecedary incised on black granite" in Wadi Hammamat.

The ramps are attached to the outer casing of the pyramid and completely wrap-around it.

Ramp model by Georges Goyon
Funerary mask of pharaoh Amenemope , whose tomb was rediscovered by Montet and Goyon in 1940 at Tanis.