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Étiqueté : archaeology

The Ifpo Conservation Project of the Aqaba Church (1): General Presentation

From October 3 to December 31, 2023, the French Institute of the Near East (Ifpo) carried out at Aqaba the conservation of a mudbrick building interpreted as one of the oldest churches in the world, said to be dating back to the 4th century (fig. 1). It was discovered in the 1990s by the Roman ‘Aqaba Project (dir. Pr. Th. Parker from North Carolina State University). At the time, the building and...

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Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture (Season two 2021-2022)

Another remarkable result of the signed letter of agreement between the University of Kurdistan-Hawler (UKH) and the French Institute for the Near East (Ifpo) was successfully achieved by the end of the academic year 2021-2022, through the second season of a series of online seminars regarding Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture (for the first season, see here). This was an outcome of thorough discussions between...

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Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture

The end of the 2020–2021 academic year coincided with the end of the seminar entitled ‘Erbil History, Archaeology, Arts and Architecture’, co-organized by the University of Kurdistan Hawler (Mahmood Khayat and Soorkeu Atrooshi) and Ifpo (Barbara Couturaud and Narmin Ali Amin), on the basis of a signed letter of agreement between Ifpo and UKH. This seminar was the result of many long, rich and mind challenging talks I had the good...