Education
École du Louvre; Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris.
anthropologist archaeologist pastor university professor
École du Louvre; Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris.
He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, and is best known for his work at Mari, Syria, where he led important excavations from 1933 to 1975. Parrot was born in 1901 in Désandans in the French department of Doubs. He was appointed chief curator of the National Museums in 1946, and became director of the Louvre from 1958 to 1962.
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.