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The Royal Museum of Mariemont in Belgium holds an exhibit that visitors find particularly intriguing: a fragment of a colossal female statue.

In Egypt, canals built in the Pharaonic era still channel the waters of the Nile towards the agricultural land, where ingenious machines would raise the water so that it might irrigate even the smallest field.

On the west coast of India, in northern Kerala, certain religious festivals take place during the dry season in private and communal sanctuaries in honour of the Theyyam

Statues move in Alexandria. So do obelisks. Seven hundred and fifty-ton blocks of stone quarried at Aswan and erected by the Pharaohs in the sanctuary of the sun god at Heliopolis were “borrowed” by the Ptolemies to decorate their new capital at Alexandria.

As part of a Franco-German project entitled CeramEgypt, the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines has set out to study potters’ workshops that are still active in different parts of Egypt

Founded in 1990 by Jean-Yves Empereur, director of research with the French National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), the Centre d’Études Alexandrines undertakes a number of different missions in close collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.

The Educational Outreach Service of the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines (CEAlex) was established more than ten years ago to build links between the researchers of the Cealex and the school and university community.

The different stages in the manufacture of royal furnishings and ceremonial masks completely covered with tiny glass beads are followed through interviews with Paul Tahbou, court artist

On the 7th April 1893, a group of Alexandrians were gathered in the home of Sir Charles Cookson, the Consul General of Great Britain. The reason for the meeting was to discuss the founding of an archaeological society

The first sewn boats, that is craft whose planks were assembled with lashings, date far back in antiquity. In Egypt, 4500 years ago, this technique was used in the construction of Kheops’ solar boat, a ship some 43.50 metres long.

Man has always been intrigued by what he cannot see. This search for the invisible is also of interest to archaeologists. Photographs of objects, of tombs, of sarcophagi, of mummies all leave us imagining what visual elements have disappeared

With support from the French regional government of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and the Centre International de Conservation du Livre based in Arles, the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines (CEAlex, a CNRS team based in Alexandria) has begun digitising the francophone press of Egypt as part of a French National Research Agency project (No. 08-COMM-050).

Melle, Western France, at the experimental archaeology centre known as the Plate-forme des arts du feu. In 2007-2008, the first experiments in coin-making techniques focused on owls, silver coins minted in Athens in Classical times.

Trapped between the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean Sea, Lake Borollos is one of the last refuges of traditional fishing practices. Here, in this shallow

Papyrellas, or papyrus boats, are often represented on the pottery and mosaics of Ancient Egypt. The papyrus plant, however, disappeared from the Egyptian countryside centuries ago, and one must travel to Ethiopia to see such craft, locally known as tankwas.

The cisterns of Alexandria have been known of since antiquity and have been admired by numerous travellers.

Since November 2003, with the support of the French regional authority of Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, an educational outreach service has been engaged in encouraging young Alexandrians to learn about and take an interest in the rich heritage of their town.

This is the story of the discovery in Egypt of the first glass-melting furnaces, dating from the Early Roman period. Based on research in archives and libraries, prospections were carried out on foot in the Alexandria region and in the oasis of Wadi Natrun, followed by geophysical surveys. Primary glassmakers’ workshops were located in this oasis.

Every summer, within a specialist centre known as “La plateforme des arts du feu”, the small town of Melle in the French department of Les Deux-Sèvres becomes a stage for experimentation in ancient metallurgy.

For several generations in Kürüdere/Nazarköy, the Village of the Eye, some 30 km south-east of Izmir, many of the inhabitants have been specialists in the manufacture of beads bearing the image of the protective eye.

The Franco-Egyptian team of the Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) under the leadership of Jean-Yves Empereur has, for more than ten years now, been involved in a series of salvage excavations on land and underwater.

The Franco-Egyptian team of the Centre d’Études Alexandrines (CEAlex) under the leadership of Jean-Yves Empereur has, for more than ten years now, been involved in a series of salvage excavations on land and underwater.

The village of Papanaidupet, 140 km north-west of Madras, is home to a community of blacksmiths who work in the traditional way.

For several generations in the village of Papanaidupet, some 140 km north west of Madras, a large number of the inhabitants have specialised in the manufacture of beads from tubes of glass that have not been blown but drawn.

Marine Estrangin is an illustrator. After two years working on an archaeological site at Karnak in Upper Egypt where she drafted inscriptions, in 2004 she joined the team of the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines.

Until the 19th century, Alexandria was a town of canals and cisterns. The underground city was almost as vast as that above, and without its year-round supply of drinking water, Alexandria would never have known such a remarkable history.

In November 2003, the French regional authority of Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur in partnership with the “Volontaires du Progrès” association sent two young volunteers to work at the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines.

Yvan, a young stonemason with the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines, must create a chef-d’oeuvre to demonstrate his competence and be accepted into the guild

The Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria holds several hundreds of thousands of ancient coins, 2,000 of which are on public display.

In the 19th century, there were over 700 cisterns scattered throughout the city of Alexandria. Dating from Roman, Byzantine, medieval and Ottoman times

An important focus of the Centre d’Études Alexandrines is the study and conservation of mosaics. This film presents the restoration of the medallions of two very beautiful ancient mosaics

One of the many studies carried out by the Centre d’Études Alexandrines over the years concerns the cavities and lead fastening elements in the blocks from Alexandria’s Pharos