Scientific team
Gwenola Graff is an Egyptologist specialising in pre-Pharaonic cultures.
She joined the IRD (French Institute of Research for development) in 2005 like researcher. Her work focuses on two themes
Predynastic Egyptian iconography, from image to writing, and
Peri-Saharan rock art (Morocco-Egypt): graphic composition as an interface between image and writing.
She leads two archaeological missions studying Saharan rock art sites, one in southern Egypt (joint Franco-Egyptian mission of Wadi Abu Subeira, Aswan region) and the other in southern Morocco (Franco-Moroccan mission of Azrou Klane, Guelmin region from 2013 to2017 and Sahara, site of Laghchiwat, south of Smara).
The objective of his work is to research the structuring and composition of the image, in relation to the study of the producing societies, in an attempt to decipher these images.
Maxence Bailly is Assistant professor/lecturer in Archaeology at Aix-Marseille Université. He earned his PhD in 2002 is senior lecturer since 2013. He teaches and practices archaeological research as an academic member of the Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe-Afrique (LaMPEA – UMR 7269).
Adel Kelany is an Egyptian archaeologist, Chief Inspector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Aswan Regional Delegation, in charge of the Mines and Quarries Department.
Since 2005, he has been mandated by the SCA to direct the work in the western concession of Wadi Abu Subeira, where he discovered rock engravings attributed to the Upper Palaeolithic. These engravings make Wadi Abu Subeira a site of the Qurta cultural group, the oldest rock art in East Africa.
He is the author of various publications on this subject.
Technical production team
Romain Suarez, Cartomundi platform manager
Stéphane Renault, editorial manager, coordinator of the MMSH Publishing Department
Tamara Glushetckaia, Digital Humanities project manager, MMSH, IR* Human-Num