April 5, 2018 Jarama
Qarhât al Add The aerial shots and the photogrammetry survey helped to understand better this dry-stone building. This last one measures 21 length, to 6 m wide and maximum 1,20m high for the wall. The total internal surface is 110 m2. Aerial photos allowed also to see pathway starting from […]
March 20, 2018 Hegra
The 2016 campaign lasted six weeks, from Septembrer to October, continuing the excavations in the three areas (B, C, E) opened in 2015. In area E, stone basements had been interpreted in 2015 as partitions or installations of the monumental building revealed by a long massive wall. It appeared finally […]
March 20, 2018 Hegra
The 2017 campaign of the Madain Salih French-Saoudi Archaeological Mission focused on five areas : – the large Nabataean urban sanctuary built at the top and around the sandstone mound. This religious complex consists of an upper temple and probably a lower temple. The latter is built on a terrace […]
March 19, 2018 Pompei - Porta Nocera
The 2017 campaign ran from August 21st to September 30th. The first week was mainly devoted to material studies (glass, worked bones, oil lamps…). A training course on the study of cremations took place during the second week under the direction of Henri Duday. The archaeological investigations were therefore mostly […]
March 15, 2018 Leon Viejo
The archaeological project « Leon Viejo through Time and Space » was created in 2017 to better define the spatial and chrono-cultural characteristics of this important site of Nicaragua. During the first intervention, surveys were carried out to enlight the cultural stratigraphy of the site and to confirm the existence of a […]
January 15, 2018 Qalhât
The Qalhat Project has been underway since 2007 in the Sultanate of Oman, under the direction of Axelle Rougeulle (UMR 8167, CNRS). It focuses on one of the most important port sites of the southern Arabian peninsula for the late Middle Ages. After a decade spent on field missions […]