Annie Sartre-Fauriat

Annie Sartre-Fauriat, born Annie Fauriat on 17 November 1947, is a French historian specialising in funerary archaeology and Greek and Latin epigraphy of the Greco-Roman Near East, as well as travel and travellers in the East in both the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biography Annie Sartre-Fauriat has a degree in history and a doctorate from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. University Professor since 1992. She is Professor Emeritus of the University of Artois.

She is a member of the UNESCO expert group on Syrian heritage.

Publications A list of some of Sartre-Fauriat's publications:

The Road to Palmyra, Chapter 4: The discovery and reception of Palmyra, Ny Carlsberg Glypotek, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019. Palmyre: La Cité Des Caravanes, Gallimard, Paris, 2008. Zénobie de Palmyre à Rome, Perrin, Paris, 2014. Palmyre vérités et légendes, Perrin, Paris, 2016. Aventuriers, voyageurs et savants à la découverte archéologique de la Syrie (17th-21st century), CNRS édit., Paris, 2021.

Distinctions Decoration Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Awards 2015 - Prix Historia de la biographie historique 2016 - 40e Prix Pierre-Lafue. 2021 - Prix Plottel de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres - intended to encourage high-level work in the field of classical studies, awarded to crown the series of Greek and Latin Inscriptions of Syria published by the Institut français du Proche-Orient.