Charles Trick Currelly
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Charles Trick Currelly (1876–1957) was a Canadian clergyman and archeologist, and the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum from 1914 to 1946.
Currelly was born in Exeter, Ontario. He attended private schools and later Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto. Currelly entered the ministry in 1899 but went to London in 1902 and was appointed to the staff of the Egyptian Exploration Fund. In 1903 he joined the British School of Archaeology in Athens. In 1902-1903 he discovered the tomb of the pharaoh Admes and also a stone which revealed the parentage of the founders of the Eighteenth Dynasty. In 1903-1904 he was in charge of the explorations along the Fayoum and in the northern marshes in Egypt. In 1904-1905 he led an exploring party in Sinai, and afterward engaged in excavations in Crete, Asia Minor, and Syria. He discovered the statue of Hathor; also the inscription and portrait of Khufu, for which the Khedive of Egypt conferred on him the Order of the Majidieh. Later he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1907 he was appointed curator of the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Toronto. After eight years of explorations and collecting in Egypt and Europe, he returned to Canada in 1919. He published Sinai, an account of his explorations.
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