# Maurice Dunand · Person

> French archaeologist who directed the excavation of Byblos from 1924 to 1975, found the pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions in 1928 to 1932, and published…

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# Maurice Dunand

French archaeologist who directed the excavation of Byblos from 1924 to 1975, found the pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions in 1928 to 1932, and published them with a sign list of 114 signs in Byblia Grammata (1945). **1898–1987.**

[The Byblos syllabary](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)[3 events][2 sources]

Maurice Dunand is french archaeologist, excavator of Byblos and publisher of its pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions (1898–1987), and appears in the record of Byblos syllabary as french archaeologist who directed the excavation of Byblos from 1924 to 1975, found the pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions in 1928 to 1932, and published them with a sign list of 114 signs in Byblia Grammata (1945).

Three events on the site involve Dunand, from Maurice Dunand finds the bronze tablets, spatulas and stone fragments in the temple area of Byblos (1928) to Dunand publishes four more short stone fragments (1978).

Three questions rest in part on what Dunand did or said, among them “When were the Byblos inscriptions written?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**The Byblos syllabary**

3 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary)

[When were the Byblos inscriptions written?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ0JG3EE/when-were-the-byblos-inscriptions-written)Open: 3 answers, none ahead

[Where did the Byblos signs come from, and is the script related to the Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQBGYEW6/where-did-the-byblos-signs-come-from-and-is-the-script)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[How many distinct signs does the script have, and how is it structured?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/questions/QST0DEDQQ8C80YA/how-many-distinct-signs-does-the-script-have-and-how-is-it)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What Maurice Dunand did 3

1928[Maurice Dunand finds the bronze tablets, spatulas and stone fragments in the temple area of Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMABNSCBR/maurice-dunand-finds-the-bronze-tablets-spatulas-and-stone)

at [Byblos (Jbeil)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDHMPQSAM4/byblos-jbeil)

1945[Dunand publishes the ten inscriptions with a list of 114 signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMAMN6TX6/dunand-publishes-the-ten-inscriptions-with-a-list-of-114)

1978[Dunand publishes four more short stone fragments](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/byblos-syllabary/events/EVT0DEDMK4PJ21N/dunand-publishes-four-more-short-stone-fragments)

## Places 1

[Byblos (Jbeil)](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0DEDHMPQSAM4/byblos-jbeil)

archaeological site

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## Sources 2

[Byblia Grammata: Documents et recherches sur le développement de l'écriture en Phénicie](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDF2YQM7E3/byblia-grammata-documents-et-recherches-sur-le-developpement)

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[Nouvelles inscriptions pseudo-hiéroglyphiques découvertes à Byblos](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDFA5TC4KT/nouvelles-inscriptions-pseudo-hieroglyphiques-decouvertes-a)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Maurice Dunand [Person FIG0DEDHXYX3GYS]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDHXYX3GYS
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1898-03-04

Died

1987-03-23

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archaeologist, excavator, editor of the corpus

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French archaeologist, excavator of Byblos and publisher of its pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions

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