Françoise Dunand
{{short description|French historian}}
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Françoise Dunand ({{IPA|fr|fʁɑ̃swaz dynɑ̃}}; born 1934) is a French historian, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg. She is a specialist in Greek and Roman Egypt.
Career
Since 1981, Françoise Dunand has been leading the "Alpha Necropolis" team to excavate the necropolises at the Kharga Oasis in Egypt.{{cite web |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Francoise-Dunand/16843 |title=Françoise Dunand |author= |date= |website=Babelio |publisher= |accessdate=2018-01-30 |language=fr}} 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 {{ill|Qasr Dush|lt=Duch|fr|Nécropole de Douch}} in Egypt's western desert.{{cite book |last1=Dunand |first1=Françoise |last2=Lichtenberg |first2=Roger |translator-last=Sharman |translator-first=Ruth |date=1994 |title=Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity |series="Abrams Discoveries" series |location=New York |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |page=128 |isbn=9780810928862 |oclc=31469421 |quote=About the authors}} The findings at Duch are partly presented in her book {{lang|fr|Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité}}.
She frequently collaborates with Roger Lichtenberg, a medical doctor and director of the radiology unit at the {{ill|Institut Arthur Vernes|fr}} in Paris. He has conducted anthropological and palaeopathological studies on the mummies of Duch, and is co-author of {{lang|fr|Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité}}.{{cite web |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Roger-Lichtenberg/54026 |title=Roger Lichtenberg |author= |date= |website=Babelio |publisher= |accessdate=2018-01-30 |language=fr}}
She participated in the writing of a collective work {{lang|fr|La mort et l'immortalité : Encyclopédie des savoirs et des croyances}} by signing in the second chapter entitled {{lang|fr|La mort et le devenir du corps}}, an article {{lang|fr|Des corps sortis du temps}}.
Awards
- 1999: Prix Clio for archaeological research – Special Jury Prize for her Etude archéologique et anthropologique de la nécropole d'El Deioasis de Kharga{{cite web |url=http://www.clio.fr/prixclio/#laureat1999 |title=Prix Clio pour la recherche archéologique : Palmarès 1999 |author= |date= |website=clio.fr |publisher= |accessdate=2018-01-30 |language=fr}}
- 2002: Prix Clio for archaeological research – for her Kharga{{cite web |url=http://www.clio.fr/prixclio/#laureat2002 |title=Prix Clio pour la recherche archéologique : Palmarès 2002 |author= |date= |website=clio.fr |publisher= |accessdate=2018-01-30 |language=fr}}
Selected publications
- 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){{cite web |url=http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Decouvertes-Gallimard/Decouvertes-Gallimard/Archeologie/Les-momies |title=Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité, collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 118) |author= |date= 26 October 2007|publisher=Éditions Gallimard |language=fr |accessdate=2018-01-30 |quote=}}
- 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. « Babel ». Actes Sud, 2008
; Participated in the collective work
- AA.VV., La mort et l'immortalité : Encyclopédie des savoirs et des croyances, Bayard, 2004
Documentary
{{lang|fr|Les Momies du Désert}} (lit. 'The Mummies of the Desert'), a 13-minute short documentary film about Françoise Dunand's archaeological dig at the Kharga Oasis, directed by Serge Tignères and Alain Zenou. It is part of the DVD {{lang|fr|Le mystère des momies}} from Arte's documentary series The Human Adventure, and available in English.{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdcritiques.com/Dvd/1021 |title=Le mystère des Momies |author= |date= |website=dvdcritiques.com |publisher= |accessdate=2018-01-30 |language=fr}}
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Category:20th-century French writers