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Borchardt initially studied Architecture and later Egyptology under Adolf Erman . In 1895 he journeyed to Cairo and produced, with Gaston Maspero , the Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum. In 1907 he founded the German Archeological Institute (or ''Deutsche Archäologische Institut'' or DAI ) in Cairo , and remained its director until 1928 . His main focus was Ancient Egyptian architecture. He began excavations in Amarna , where he discovered the workshop of the sculptor Djhutmose , amongst its contents was the bust of Nefertiti , (now in the Berlin Egyptology Museum). he also directed the excavations in Heliopolis and the tombs of Old Kingdom nobles in Abu Gorab . He died in Paris , on 12 August 1938 PUBLICATIONS
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