| Conferences are
proposed in exchanged for your company’s support
of the Groupe de Recherche Européen pour
l’Archéologie au Levant.
The conferences are conducted by qualified
researchers. Their purpose is to allow the
management and employees of your company have
an original and expert discussion on the civilizations
of Egypt and the Near-East, with recent discoveries
as a starting point.
Prehistory
of the Sahara, of Egypt, and of the Near-East
From the
early Neolithic to the first village organizations,
the area of the Fertile Crescent in the Near-East
set the tone for changes that Gordon Childe
describes collectively as the “Neolithic Revolution”.
However, recent research highlights the existents
of different points of development of Neolithic
culture in the Near-East and in Africa. We
present an overview of the cultural and material
evolution of the first peasants of Egypt and
the Levant.
► The Egyptian Western Desert, searching
for paradise lost: overview of Egyptian prehistory
and the Sahara Neolithic.
► Birth of agriculture and emergence
of divinities in the Near-East, in the Fertile
Croissant, and beyond.
Proto-history
of Egypt and of the Near-East
At the dawn
of the 4th millennium, in the two alluvial
valleys of Egypt and of Mesopotamia, different
communities develop complex social organization
systems. We propose a selection of conferences
which explain how the foundations of the first
States were put in place in just a few centuries.
► From warlords to pharaohs: The Unification
of Egypt and the formation of the monarchy
in the 4th millennium.
► Exchanges and communications between
the Nile Delta and Palestine in the 4th millennium
B.C. : a fruitful dialogue.
► Ma’adi, economic capital of the Nile
Delta: first stone architecture and first
metallurgy in Africa.
► Nahal Mishmar, the first metallurgy
of the Levant.
► Birth of the State and Mesopotamian
royalty, between myths and archaeological
traces.
► From accounting to literature: the
emergence of writing in Mesopotamia.
► From the village to cities in Mesopotamia.
► Ex Oriente Lux ? Contacts
and exchanges between Uruk Mesopotamia and
Egypt in the 4th millennium.
Historical
archaeology of Egypt and of the Near-East
Archaeology
in historical periods regularly provides sensational
subjects to a general public very attached
to Egyptian and Near-Eastern civilizations.
But what is their real nature? We prose a
variety of “classical” subjects through which
we can examine archaeology in a new and original
way. You’ll be surprised!
► No, the pyramids are not extraterrestrial
space vessels. ». A critical overview
of the latest theories and research on the
pyramids of the Egyptian Early Empire.
► The Middle-Empire: the golden age
of royal sculpture.
► Evolution of weapons and warcraft
in ancient Egypt, origins of the New Kingdom.
► Tell el-Amarna, the doomed city of
Akhénaton.
► Human sacrifices in Egypt and Mesopotamia:
archaeological fantasy or historical reality?
Biblical
archaeology
Biblical
archaeology details certain episodes of the
Holy Scriptures. We propose an overview of
the latest archaeological discoveries in the
Holy Land and earlier mythologies from Mesopotamia
and Egypt that shed light on the Bible.
► The Bible and the revelations of archaeology.
► Abraham, a key person to the three
religions of the Book.
► Moses and monotheist religion.
► Qûmran and the Dead Sea scrolls.
► From Gilgamesh to Noah, Mesopotamian
roots of the Bible.
The major
discoveries in Egypt and in the Near-East
/ Archaeology affairs.
From the
discoveries of the 30’s to current perspectives,
archaeology constantly contradicts the affirmation
suggesting that “everything has already been
discovered”. Even if we now know most of the
“monuments” that are key to the history of
Egypt and the Near-East, there remain kings
and capitals that are totally unknown. The
recent discovery of the Jiroft civilization
in Iran demonstrates that notion. We propose
an overview of the major archaeological discoveries
of the 20th century and their contribution
to our knowledge, including parallel markets
and the Sesostris III affair.
► Life and renaissance of a pharoah:
Tutankhamon.
► The secrets of the Royal Tombs of
Ur
► The Sesostris III affair: the fake
pharaoh unmasked.
► Jiroft, a century in Iran re-found.
► The swimmers and the headless beast
found in the middle of the Sahara: new mythologies
from the South-West of Egypt.
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