Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian,a philologist and student of epigraphy,who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity,notably Mithraism.
John Victor Tolan is a historian of religious and cultural relations between the Arab and Latin-speaking civilizations of the Middle Ages.
Pascale Ballet is a French Egyptologist,and a Professor of Art History and Archaeology of Antiquity at the University of Poitiers. The subject of her thesis obtained in June 1980 under the leadership of Jean Leclant was on terracotta figurines from Egypt and the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic and Roman times,in which she is an expert.
Corinne Vezzoni is a French architect.
Maurice Sartre is a French historian,an Emeritus professor of ancient history at the François Rabelais University,a specialist in ancient Greek and Eastern Roman history,especially the Hellenized Middle East,from Alexander to Islamic conquests.
Émilienne Demougeot was a French historian,a specialist of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. She was one of the first women professors of history at a French university,and the first woman professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Montpellier.
Olivier Picard was a French archeologist. He was director of the French School at Athens and a member of the Institut de France.
Claude Nicolet was a 20th-21st century French historian,a specialist of the institutions and political ideas of ancient Rome.
Claude Lepelley was a 20th-21st-century French historian,a specialist of late Antiquity and North Africa during Antiquity. His thesis,Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire,defended in 1977 under the direction of William Seston,profoundly changed the understanding of the urban world in the 3rd and 4th centuries;far from declining,the cities of Africa had some prosperity.
John Scheid is a French historian. A specialist of ancient Rome,he has been a professor at the Collège de France since 2001.
Jocelyne Dakhlia is a French historian and anthropologist. A director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales,her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Claire Sotinel is a Professor of Ancient History at l'Universitéde Paris-Est Créteil. She is an expert on Italy in late antiquity,religion,society,and prosopography.
Charles Bonnet is a Swiss archeologist,specialist of Ancient Nubia.
The CHU UCLouvain Namur or CHU UCL Namur is a general hospital with academic beds located in the cities of Namur,Dinant,Yvoir and Ciney,in the Belgian province of Namur. Established in 2015,it is UCLouvain's second hospital.
Juliette Bessis was born in 1925 in Gabès,Tunisia,and died 2017 in Paris,France. She was a contemporary Tunisian scholar and historian specializing in the Maghreb region of northern Africa.
Aristarche is a Greek mythological figure said by Strabo to have been an Ephesian woman of rank who went with the Phocaean colonists to Massalia,where she became a priestess of Artemis in the newly built temple.
Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet is a French historian and research director. She is a doctor in history,research director at the CNRS,at the Orient and Mediterranean laboratory and a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. In 2016,she was awarded the Irène-Joliot-Curie Prize for Woman Scientist of the Year.
Émilia Masson was a linguist and epigrapher whose areas of research included the undeciphered Cypro-Minoan writing system from ancient Cyprus,and the ancient Anatolian language Hittite.
Marie Favereau Doumenjou is a French historian and writer. She currently teaches medieval history at Paris Nanterre University,and specialises in the history of the Mongol Empire and Islamic history. She has published several books. Her 2021 book,The Horde:How the Mongols Changed the World,was published to critical acclaim,being nominated for the Cundill Prize,the Prose Award in World History by the Association of American Publishers,and listed as a notable book of the year by several publications.
Véronique Chankowski is a French historian. She is a specialist in the economic and social history of the ancient Greek world. She has served as the Director of the French School at Athens since 2019.
