Maryvonne Chartier-Raymond

Since 1987, the egyptologist and archaeologist Maryvonne Chartier-Raymond has participated in a number of missions in the Nile valley and on the Sinai Pensinsula with the universities of Lille (France) and Louvain (Belgium).

In the northern Sinai, she worked on the fortress of Tell el-Herr with the mission of Professor Dominique Valbelle (of the University of Lille and the Sorbonne). She also participated in an international survey of archaeological sites in the northeast Nile Delta, and has worked in the southern Sinai on copper and turquoise mining sites that were active from the Old to the New Kingdom.

In the Nile valley, she has worked with Professors Jan Quaegebeur (University of Louvain) and Claude Traunecker (Universities of Lille and Strasbourg) on the Roman-period Egyptian temple of Chenhour.

She has published articles on the mining sites of the southern Sinai and participated in the publications of findings from the northern Sinai and Chenhour.

On May 1, 2008, she became president of the Basler Forum für Ägyptologie (more).

She is vice president of the International Association for the Study of Ancient Egyptian Law (Association Internationale pour l'Etude du Droit de l'Egypte Ancienne - AIDEA) (more).

She is also vice president of the Alliance Française de Bâle (more) and member of the Union des Français de l'Etranger / Union des Français et Francophones de la Région de Bâle (more).

She is known to the public in the Basel area for her courses, lectures and tours, and sporadically publishes the Chroniques de Merit-Neith.

See also her curriculum vitae (PDF) in English, in French or in German.