Editing Louvre (section)

== Archaeological research ==
[[File:Louvre Excavations.jpg|thumb|List of excavations that benefited the Louvre (Rotonde d'Apollon)]]

The Louvre's ancient art collections are to a significant extent the product of excavations, some of which the museum sponsored under various legal regimes over time, often as a companion to France's diplomacy and/or colonial enterprises. In the {{lang|fr|Rotonde d'Apollon|italic=unset}}, a carved marble panel lists a number of such campaigns, led by:
* [[Louis-François-Sébastien Fauvel]] in Greece (1818)
* [[Jean-François Champollion]] in Egypt (1828–1829)
* [[Guillaume-Abel Blouet]] and [[Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois]] with the [[Morea expedition]] in Greece (1829)
* {{ill|Adolphe Delamare|fr}} in Algeria (1842–1845)
* [[Paul-Émile Botta]] in the [[Nineveh Plains]] (1845)
* {{ill|Joseph Vattier de Bourville|fr}} in [[Cyrenaica]] (1850)
* [[Auguste Mariette]] in Egypt (1850–1854)
* [[Victor Langlois (historian)|Victor Langlois]] in [[Cilicia]] (1852)
* [[Ernest Renan]] with the [[Mission de Phénicie]] following the [[1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus]] (1860–1861)
* [[Léon Heuzey]] and [[Honoré Daumet]] in [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]] (1861)
* [[Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé]] and [[Edmond Duthoit]] in Cyprus (1863–1866)
* [[Charles Champoiseau]] in [[Samothrace]] (1863)
* {{ill|Emmanuel Miller|de}} in [[Thessaloniki]] and [[Thasos]] (1864–1865)
* [[Olivier Rayet]] and [[Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas]] in [[Ionia]] (1872–1873)
* [[Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] (1873)
* {{ill|Antoine Héron de Villefosse|fr}} in Algeria and Tunisia (1874)
* [[Ernest de Sarzec]] in Tello / ancient [[Girsu]], [[Mesopotamia]] (1877–1900)
* [[Paul Girard]] in Greece (1881)
* [[Edmond Pottier]], [[Salomon Reinach]] and Alphonse Veyries in [[Myrina (Aeolis)]] (1872–1873)
* [[Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy]] and [[Jane Dieulafoy]] in [[Susa]], Persia (1884–1886)
* Charles Huber in [[Tayma]], Arabia (1885)
* [[Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher]] in India and present-day Pakistan (1895–1897)
* [[Arthur Engel (numismatist)|Arthur Engel]] and {{ill|Pierre Paris (archaeologist)|lt=Pierre Paris|de|Pierre Paris|es|Pierre Paris|fr|Pierre Paris}} in Spain (1897)
* [[Jacques de Morgan]] in [[Susa]] (1897)
* [[Gaston Cros]] in Tello / ancient [[Girsu]] (1902)
* [[Paul Pelliot]] in [[Xinjiang|Chinese Turkestan]] (1907–1909)
* [[Maurice Pézard]] in Northern Palestine (1923)
* [[Georges Aaron Bénédite]] in Egypt (1926)
* [[François Thureau-Dangin]] in Northern Syria (1929)
* [[Henri de Genouillac]] in Mesopotamia (1912, 1929)
* the [[Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale]] in Cairo, created in 1880
The rest of the plaque combines donors of archaeological items, many of whom were archaeologists themselves, and other archaeologists whose excavations contributed to the Louvre's collections:
* {{ill|Frédéric Moreau (archeologist){{!}}Frédéric Moreau|fr|Frédéric Moreau (archéologue)}} in France (1899)
* [[Édouard Piette]] in France (1902)
* {{ill|Joseph de Baye|fr}} in France (1899–1906)
* Henri and [[Jacques de Morgan]] in Susa (1909–1910)
* {{ill|Léon Henri-Martin|fr}} (1906–1920) and his daughter Germaine in France (1976)
* {{ill|Louis Capitan|fr}} in France (1929)
* {{ill|René de Saint-Périer|fr}} and his wife Suzanne in France (1935)
* [[Fernand Bisson de la Roque]] in Egypt (1922–1950)
* [[Bernard Bruyère]] in Egypt (1920–1951)
* [[Raymond Weill]] in Egypt (1952)
* [[Pierre Montet]] in Egypt (1921–1956)
* {{ill|Jean Marie Casal|de}} in the [[Indus Valley civilisation|Indus Valley]] and Afghanistan (1950–1973)
* {{ill|Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin|fr}} in France (1973)
* [[André Parrot]] in [[Mari, Syria]] (1931–1974)
* [[Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer]] in [[Ugarit]], Syria (1929–1970)
* [[Roman Ghirshman]] in Iraq and Iran (1931–1972)