Hourig Sourouzian is an Egyptologist specializing in art history. She is a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute and member of ICOMOS Armenia.
Doctor in Egyptology from the University of Paris Sorbonne with a dissertation on Royal Statuary of the 19th Dynasty. Graduated from École du Louvre (with dissertation on The Monuments of King Merenptah ), and from École des Langues Orientales, Paris.
She is specialized in Egyptian Art and particularly Egyptian sculpture. Has reassembled the Monumental Statue group of Amun and Mut from Karnak in the Cairo Museum and is the author of several statue other joins between museums and temples.
Works since 1974 in Egypt, in diverse archaeological missions at Karnak, Thebes West, Dahshur and Tanis. Since1998 she directs THE COLOSSI OF MEMNON AND AMENHOTEP III TEMPLE CONSERVATION POJECT in Luxor, under the auspices of Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt and the German Institute of Archaeology.
She was guest professor at the American University in Cairo, the Universities of Munich and Vienna, the Collège de France and the Sorbonne in Paris. Lectured in Egyptian Institutes of major Universities and in Egyptian Museums, on Egyptian Art and on her search in statuary. Co-author of the Cairo Museum's Catalogue with Mohamed Saleh, and author of books, articles and reports on Egyptian Art and Archaeology.
Hourig Sourouzian est invitée par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du professeur Laurent Coulon, chaire Civilisation de l'Égypte pharaonique.
