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Place of Birth: Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
About Jean-Yves Empereur
- Jean-Yves Empereur (French: [?~p?Ĺ“?]; born 1952) is a French archeologist.
- He studied classic literature in the University Paris IV Sorbonne (DEA, CAPES, Agrégation de lettres in 1975, Doctorat in archeology in 1977). He is a former member (since 1978) and general secretary (1982–2000) of the École française d'Athènes.
- He conducted some excavations, including some submarine ones, in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, on the sites Thasos and Amathus. He is a researcher from the CNRS, director of the fr:Centre d'Ă©tudes alexandrines (CEA) - Alexandria Studies Center that he founded in 1990, and since then he has led archeological research in Alexandria on earth and underwater.
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