Antoine Gigal

Antoine Gigal is a French writer and researcher, author of The Secret Chronicles of Giza and permanent correspondent in Egypt for the magazine L'Egypte. She is also one of the founders of the organization Giza for Humanity Her early years were spent in Africa and South America where her father worked as a journalist and then as a diplomat. This gave her the chance to travel all over the world at an early age exploring different cultures and civilizations. Later she went to the Sorbonne University in Paris and to the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (founded originally by Champollion), where she graduated in Chinese and Japanese languages and civilizations. She also studied Sanskrit, Latin and ancient Greek, and gained a reputation for translating an cient texts. She also speaks modern Egyptian, Spanish and Italian fluently. For the last 20 years she has lived mainly in Egypt and has explored all the most remote archaeological areas, especially those not yet open to the general public. With the eye of an astute detective and scrupulous research she brings us unprecedented access to new and first hand information to enlarge our understanding of very ancient Egypt. Gigal now lives and writes for half the year in Paris and half in Cairo. She lectures extensively on Egypt and personally leads several in-depth study tours to Egypt every year. Gigal Research Giza For Humanity