Béatrix Midant-Reynes

Adaima, A Predynastic site in Upper Egypt

Dr. Béatrix Midant-Reynes is an Emeritus Senior Researcher at CNRS (UMR 5608-TRACES, Toulouse, France). As a specialist in the Pre-and-Protohistory of Egypt, she has led several archaeological excavations dating back to the pre-Pharaonic period. These include El Adaima (Upper-Egypt) from 1989 to 2005, Kom el-Khilgan (Nile Delta) from 2001 to 2006 and Tell el-Iswid (Nile Delta) from 2006 to 2016. Additionally, she has co-directed archaeological surveys and excavations of Epipaleolithic and Neolithic sites in the southern basin of the Kharga Oasis in the western desert of Egypt.

Currently she is co-directing the excavation of a mining settlement associated with quarries and flint workshops at Wadi Sannur in the Eastern desert, located between the Nile and the Red Sea.

In 1990, she founded the Archéo-Nil Society (Society for the study of the pre-pharaonic cultures in the Nile Valley) to provide a platform for the growing interest and activity in the field of prehistoric period of Egyptian History. The society’s flagship publication is an annual thematic journal of the same name.

From 2010 to 2015, she was director of the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao) in Cairo.