Meetings with the world of science: the history and current status of oriental and biblical research at the Musée du Louvre

The Polish Academy of Sciences Scientific Center in Paris invites you to a lecture hosted by Dariusz Dlugosz, Julien Cuny and Jarosław Maniaczyk of the Louvre entitled ‘Meetings with the world of science: the history and current status of oriental and biblical research at the Louvre’.

The event will be held in a hybrid format: in the conference room (1st floor) of the Scientific Station of PAN in Paris (74 rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris) and via the Microsoft Teams platform.

Remote registration for the event: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cf7cb3eb-b461-4828-b97c-6b56d3f44b79@c09e1b13-b101-4ccc-9d9b-05118a718591
Registration for the onsite event: https://forms.office.com/e/w4ca9khyDg

The programme of the scientific evening includes three speeches by French-Polish scholars presenting the history and current state of Oriental and biblical research in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the Louvre:

1. Julien CUNY: ‘The Palace of Darius in Susa: new data from the Louvre collection’.
2. Jarosław MANIACZYK: ‘Divination in ancient Mesopotamia’.
3. Dariusz DŁUGOSZ: ‘140 years of oriental and biblical studies at the Musée du Louvre’.

Julien CUNY is a curator at the Louvre, where he is responsible for the collections of ancient Iran. He is director of the French archaeological mission in Bahrain at the Abu Saiba site. A lecturer at INALCO and the École du Louvre, he specialises in the archaeology of Susa from the Neo-Islamic period to the Sassanids, as well as the architecture of the Darius palace in Susa and the material culture and funerary practices of Bahrain. He is the author of numerous publications, including ‘A Short Note from the Louvre-Dariosh Project’ (2019) and ‘Les fouilles de Suse d’après les archives photographiques’ (2022), and has curated the exhibition at the Musée du Louvre ‘De Dilmun à Tylos’ (with Marianne Coty in 2022).

Jarosław MANIACZYK is an Assyriologist and documentalist at the Department of Oriental Antiquities (ingénieur d’études in 2016). A former assistant professor at the University of Poznan, he obtained his PhD in 2000 at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and was subsequently an administrative staff member at the Department of Oriental Antiquities (2007-2015). He is co-curator of two exhibition projects: ‘Mari en Syrie’ (Mariemont, Strasbourg) and ’Le Voyage de Zimri-Lîm. Les routes amorites au IIe millénaire’ (Louvre) and author of numerous publications on Assyriology, including “Les origines de l’écriture” (2012) and articles in the catalogue “Mari en Syrie” (2023).

Dariusz DŁUGOSZ was a lecturer at the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern History at the University of Szczecin in Poland from 1985 to 1990, and then studied at the École du Louvre (1996-97) and the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1998-2002). He has worked at the Louvre since 1994. Organiser and editor of materials for the international colloquium of Qumranologists ‘Joseph Tadeusz Milik and the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran’ (1999), he collaborates with journals specialising in Qumran studies (The Qumran Chronicle) and biblical archaeology in the Middle East (The Polish Journal of Biblical Research and The Biblical Archaeology Review).