Découverte d'une mosaique romaine à Villelaure (Vaucluse)
Discoveries

Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, Minister of culture and communication, recently announced that a polychrome mosaic dating from the Roman period had been discovered at Villelaure (Vaucluse) during an archaeological evaluation carried out by an Inrap team (Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives). 

Un site archéologique livre la dépouille d'un soldat australien de la Grande Guerre
Discoveries

While carrying out an evaluation near Saint-Quentin (Aisne), archaeologists from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives (Inrap) discovered the body of a First World War soldier. 

La découverte d'une grande <i>villa</i> à Taden : un important établissement rural gallo-romain en Bretagne
Discoveries

In advance of the creation of a ZAC (Zone d'amènagement concerté) by the community of communes of Dinan, a team from the Institut national de recherches archélogiques préventives (Inrap) excavated until February 2006 the site of Alleux in the commune of Taden (Côtes-d'Armor).

Vanves révèle son passé antique et médiéval
Discoveries

A team from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives (Inrap) has found important Gallo-Roman and Mediaeval remains in the town of Vanves. A preventive excavation, curated by the State, is being carried out prior to the construction of a residential building. 
 

Le château médiéval des comtes de Toulouse
Discoveries

The mediaeval castle of the Counts of Toulouse found beneath the Palais de Justice

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Discoveries

A team from the Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (Inrap),working in collaboration with the municipal archaeology service has just found the earliest signs of human occupation in the town centre of Marseille.

Un camp napoléonien à Étaples-sur-Mer<br/> L'apport de l'archéologie à l'histoire
Discoveries

A team from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), has recently excavated part of a Napoleonic army camp at Puits d'Amour, in Etaples (Pas-de-Calais) prior to the construction of a housing estate by Pas-de-Calais Habitat.

Un baptistère paléochrétien à Ajaccio
Discoveries

The remains of the Early Christian baptistery of Ajaccio's first cathedral have just been revealed by a team from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap). 

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