Claude Doumet-Serhal MBE FSA (b. 1958) is a Lebanese archaeologist specialising in the history and archaeology of Sidon. She is a Specialist Assistant at the British Museum and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London. [1]
Doumet-Serhal studied at the Ecole du Louvre and has a PhD from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. After moving to London in 1993 she established the Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum. [1] Doumet-Serhal launched a joint excavation between the British Museum and the Department of Antiquities of Lebanon in 1998 at Sidon which continued for 21 years. [1] Excavations at Sidon have been her main research focus throughout her career and she has published extensively on this subject.
Doumet-Serhal was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2009. [2] She was awarded an MBE in the 2010 New Year Honours list for services to archaeology. [3]
Claude is a trustee of the Honor Frost Charitable Trust. [4]
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