Françoise Dunand

Françoise Dunand (; born 1934) is a French historian, professor emeritus of the University of Strasbourg. She is a specialist in Greek and Roman Egypt.

Career Since 1981, Françoise Dunand has been leading the "Alpha Necropolis" team to excavate the necropolises at the Kharga Oasis in Egypt. She is a former member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo, she has published a number of books and articles on late Egyptian religious beliefs and practices. Since 1983 she has directed IFAO archaeological excavations at the necropolis at the village of in Egypt's western desert. The findings at Duch are partly presented in her book .

She frequently collaborates with Roger Lichtenberg, a medical doctor and director of the radiology unit at the in Paris. He has conducted anthropological and palaeopathological studies on the mummies of Duch, and is co-author of .

She participated in the writing of a collective work by signing in the second chapter entitled , an article .

Awards 1999: Prix Clio for archaeological research – Special Jury Prize for her Etude archéologique et anthropologique de la nécropole d'El Deioasis de Kharga 2002: Prix Clio for archaeological research – for her Kharga

Selected publications Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Les momies : Un voyage dans l'éternité, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 118), série Archéologie. Éditions Gallimard, 1991 (new edition in 2007) US edition – Mummies: A Voyage Through Eternity, "Abrams Discoveries" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1994 UK edition – Mummies: A Journey Through Eternity, 'New Horizons' series. Thames & Hudson, 1994 Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Les égyptiens, coll. « Les grandes civilisations ». Éditions du Chêne, 2004 Co-author with Christiane Zivie-Coche, Gods and Men in Egypt: 3000 BCE to 395 CE, Cornell University Press, 2004 Co-author with Roger Lichtenberg, Mummies and Death in Egypt, Cornell University Press, 2007 Isis, mère des dieux, coll. « Babel ». Actes Sud, 2008 Participated in the collective work AA.VV., La mort et l'immortalité : Encyclopédie des savoirs et des croyances, Bayard, 2004

Documentary (lit. 'The Mummies of the Desert'), a 13-minute short documentary film about Françoise Dunand's archaeological dig at the Kharga Oasis, directed by Serge Tignères and Alain Zenou. It is part of the DVD from Arte's documentary series The Human Adventure, and available in English.