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Why make a dictionary in love with archeology? From A for Angkor, to Z lost city of Amazonia, via E for Egyptology, L for Lascaux and N for Neanderthal ….
How does a strand of DNA preserved in ice, a colored imprint on the walls of a cave, a sword exhumed in a tomb, how these vestiges of the past have constructed and deconstructed the history of our humanity?
From A like Angkor to Z like The Lost city of Z via E come Egyptology or N come Neanderthal, our guest the archaeologist and historian Anne Lehoerff opens its dictionary in love with archeology: a real gold mine where we meet the essentials of the Lascaux cave, the Dead Sea manuscripts but also the heroes of our childhood, from Rahan to Obelix via Indiana Jones without forgetting Tutankhamun and … his prostheses …
With the archaeologist Anne Lehoërff for his Archeology Lovers Dictionary published by Plon
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