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Françoise Dunand
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Françoise Dunand (born 1934) is a French historian, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg. She is a specialist in Greek and Roman Egypt.
Since 1981, Françoise Dunand has been leading the "Alpha Necropolis" team to excavate the necropolises at the Kharga Oasis in Egypt. She is a former member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo, she has published a number of books and articles on late Egyptian religious beliefs and practices. Since 1983 she has directed IFAO archaeological excavations at the necropolis at the village of Duch in Egypt's western desert. The findings at Duch are partly presented in her book Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité.
She frequently collaborates with Roger Lichtenberg, a medical doctor and director of the radiology unit at the Institut Arthur Vernes in Paris. He has conducted anthropological and palaeopathological studies on the mummies of Duch, and is co-author of Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité.
She participated in the writing of a collective work La mort et l'immortalité : Encyclopédie des savoirs et des croyances by signing in the second chapter entitled La mort et le devenir du corps, an article Des corps sortis du temps.
1999: Prix Clio for archaeological research – Special Jury Prize for her Etude archéologique et anthropologique de la nécropole d'El Deioasis de Kharga
2002: Prix Clio for archaeological research – for her Kharga
Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (no 118), série Archéologie. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 (new edition in 2007)
US edition – Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity, "Abrams Discoveries" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1994
UK edition – Mummies: A Journey Through Eternity, 'New Horizons' series. Thames & Hudson, 1994
Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Les égyptiens, coll. « Les grandes civilisations ». Éditions du Chêne, 2004
Co-author with Christiane Zivie-Coche, Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE, Cornell University Press, 2004
Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt, Cornell University Press, 2007
Isis, mère des dieux, coll.
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