{{Short description|French Egyptologist}} '''Michel Baud''' (11 November 1963 – 13 September 2012) was a French Egyptologist, head of the Nubian Sudan section in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tallet |first=Pierre |date=2013 |title=Michel Baud (1963-2012). |url=https://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/112/03/ |journal=Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale |volume=112 |pages=11–18}}</ref> As such, he was the organizer of an exhibition devoted exclusively to Meroe, Sudan's ancient kingdom known for its legendary capital city and its famous royal necropolis. He was also the director of the archaeological mission on the site of the necropolis at Abu Rawash, and published papers on it such as ''La ceramique miniature d'Abou Rawash''. <ref name="Redford2001">{{cite book|last=Redford|first=Donald B.|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt: A-F|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrVGAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=25 November 2011|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-513821-4|page=3}}</ref> He was a resident of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo. He was also the author of works on the late Old Kingdom South Saqqara Stone annal document with Vassil Dobrev, published between 1995 and 1997<ref name="Baines2007">{{cite book|last=Baines|first=John|title=Visual and written culture in ancient Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBaSe2lUgf8C&pg=PA183|accessdate=25 November 2011|date=12 July 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-815250-7|page=183}}</ref> in BIFAO.
Baud died on 13 September 2012 at the age of 48.<ref>[http://medievalsaiproject.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/michel-baud/ Michel-Baud, Medieval Sai Project: The Greek Norwegian Archaeological Mission to Sudan]</ref>
==Major publications== *''Djéser et la IIIe dynastie : Imhotep, Saqqara, Memphis, les pyramides à degrés'', Paris, Pygmalion, coll. « Les Grands Pharaons », 2007, 302 p. ({{ISBN|9782756401478}}) *''Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 1 & 2'', Institut français d'archéologie orientale (1999), Bibliothèque d'étude 126, {{ISBN|978-2-72-470250-7}}, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105848/http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf_library/baud_famille_2.pdf available online] *''De nouvelles annales de l'Ancien Empire Egyptien. Une "Pierre de Palerme" pour la VIe dynastie'', Bulletin de l'Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale 95, pp. 23–92, [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402154623/http://www.ifao.egnet.net/bifao/Bifao095_art_03.pdf available online] *''Méroé, un empire sur le Nil'', Officina Libraria, 2010 ({{ISBN|9788889854501}})
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