Tell Shiukh Fawqâni (Syria). The cremation cemetery (area H) at the Late Bronze and Iron ages

Aline Tenu is an archaeologist specialized in the study of ancient Syria and Mesopotamia. She completed her MA studies at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where she also obtained her PhD. She is currently a permanent researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research, in the laboratory Archaeology and Sciences of Antiquities (Nanterre, France). Her research focuses on the study of Assyria in the 2^nd and 1st Millennia bce, funerary practices at the transition between the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and the history and archaeology of the Zagros foothills. She has conducted field projects in Syria, and Iraq. She is currently the director of the French Archaeological Project in Peramagron in Iraqi Kurdistan.

She has been teaching at the University Paris-Nanterre and is still teacher at the Institut Khéops Égypte & Orient (Paris).