Internationally acknowledged Hungarian Historian, László Török died

The 79-year-old Hungarian Historian was one of the most well-known and most acknowledged researchers of the Hellenistic period of ancient Egypt and the ancient Nubia.

According to nepszava.hu, László Török was the member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He passed away on September 17 in his 80th year.

He joined the Archaeological Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences leading its development into an institution and, later, a research centre where he worked until his final days. The topic of his PhD work was the decoration system of the carvings of the Árpád-age (11th, 12th and 13th century) but that changed in time, and he became an internationally acknowledged researcher and expert of the Hellenistic Egypt to which he regularly returned during his career. 

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He took part in the examination of the archaeological material discovered during the building of the Aswan Dam. That is when he started to become one of the pioneers of Nubiology, a brand new branch of ancient history. He took part in the publication of a monumental sourcebook about the ancient Nubia,