Guy Rachet (born December 27, 1930, in Narbonne) is a French egyptologist historian, archaeologist, novelist and president of the Cercle Ernest Renan.

Until the early 1980s, the couple and their children lived frugally on the little money they earned from their scientific books, managing to make very long journeys by van to all the countries of the Mediterranean, and in particular to the Middle East, where Guy Rachet met the famous archaeologist André Parrot at the site of Mari, in Syria.

In 1981, the book won the RTL Grand Public prize and became a best-seller,[3] selling over 250,000 copies, with a sequel published the following year, Vers le Bel Occident.

Based in Paris, Guy Rachet is now an author and archaeologist considered a specialist in Egypt, a country to which he has dedicated several works and to which he has travelled on several occasions.

Since 2008, Guy Rachet has been vice-president of the Cercle Ernest Renan,[4] a center for the history of religions, biblical criticism and research into the origins of Christianity.