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 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. 

Message in a bottle
Discoveries

Following prescription from the Regional Archaeology Service, a team of archaeologists from the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives - INRAP - excavated a large Merovingian (6th-7th centuries) settlement at the "Noires terres" locality (Messein, in Meurthe-et-Moselle). 

Archéologie des temps contemporains : des héros soviétiques dans la glacière
Discoveries

In advance of works in the park of Baillet-en-France castle (Val-d'Oise), an Inrap team directed by François Gentili conducted archaeological research in 2004. 

La « résurrection » à Baillet-en-France des bas-reliefs du pavillon soviétique de 1937
Discoveries

In 2004, François Gentili, Inrap archaeologist and specialist of seigniorial dwellings, explored the 17th century ice-houses of what was once the château of Baillet-en-France.

Fouille du cimetière de La Ciotat : 1581-1831
Discoveries

Prior to the construction of a social housing project including a square bordered by a pedestrian street, Inrap archaeologists are excavating, curated by the State (Regional Archaeological Service, DRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote-d’Azur) the parish graveyard of La Ciotat situated in the historical centre of the town, a zone archaeologically relevant for the modern epoch (1492-1789). 

Fouille archéologique du Déjeuner sous l'herbe de Daniel Spoerri à Jouy-en-Josas
Discoveries

On April 23, 1983, 120 personalities of the Contemporary Art World took part in a banquet orchestrated by the artist Daniel Spoerri in the park of the domain of Montcel, at Jouy-en-Josas (Yvelines), where, a year later, the Cartier Foundation was to be installed. 

Des chevaux dans la guerre à Bar-sur-Aube
Discoveries

At Bar-sur-Aube (Aube), in 2013, an Inrap team realized an archaeological excavation in advance of the construction of a new road and a housing development, under the curation of the State (Drac Champagne). 

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