Gaston Maspero was a French Egyptologist that, along with his partner, Howard Carnahan, found the tomb of the famous King Tutankhamen in 1922 A.D.
Appearances
- The Mummy Returns (novelization) (First mentioned)
Behind the Scenes
The novelisation of The Mummy Returns refers to Maspero as "Sir Gaston Maspero": the real Gaston Maspero was never knighted and was dead for six years before the given discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in the novel.