and sister of Paul d'Estournelles de Constant. The couple had two children: Henri Maspero (who became a sinologist), and Jean Maspero (who became a papyrologist). Honours Maspero was Commander of the Legion of Honour and received an honorary degree from the University of Oxford. He was made an honorary Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (United Kingdom) in 1909. He was a member of Queen's College (University of Oxford), American Archaeological Institute (Boston), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts), American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia), American Oriental Society (Ann Arbor) and the Turin Academy of Sciences. On 30 November 1883 he was elected a member of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Letteres. Works Among his best-known publications are the large Histoire ancienne des peuples de l'Orient classique (3 vols., Paris, 1895–1897, translated into English by M. L. McClure for the S.P.C.K.), displaying the history of the whole of the nearer East from the beginnings to the conquest by Alexander; a smaller Histoire des peuples de l'Orient, 1 vol., of the same scope, which passed through six editions from 1875 to 1904; Etudes de mythologie et d'archéologie égyptiennes (Paris, 1893, etc.), a collection of reviews and essays originally published in various journals, and especially important as contributions to the study of Ancient Egyptian religion; L'Archéologie égyptienne (1887), of which several editions have been published in English. Maspero also wrote: Les inscriptions des pyramides de Saqqarah (Paris, 1894); Les momies royales de Deir el-Bahari (Paris, 1889); Les contes populaires de l'Egypte ancienne (3rd ed., Paris, 1906); and Causeries d'Egypte (1907), translated by Elizabeth Lee as New Light on Ancient Egypt (1908). In 1878 he established the journal Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes. Published quarterly, it was the first French journal to act as a medium for publishing the results of detailed studies bearing on Egyptology and Assyriology. Maspero was not only its editor but its main contributor during the nearly 40 years of its existence. He also established the Bibliothèque égyptologique in which the scattered essays of the French Egyptologists are collected, with biographies, etc; and the Annales du service des antiquités de l'Egypte, a repository for reports on official excavations, etc. In 1888, he published the first edition of the Arabic–Old French glossary. Some public domain e-books by Maspero: Art in Egypt (1912). The Dawn of Civilization: Egypt and