Mounir Arbach, research director at CNRS, is an epigraphist and historian of South Arabia before Islam. Affiliated to the French Research Center of the Arabian Peninsula in Kuwait, he was on mission to Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, where he has led the Franco-Omani Epigraphic Prospecting Mission since 2021. For around thirty years, he has carried out long stays and numerous field missions in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and currently in Oman. Author/co-author and co-editor of around fifteen scientific works, he has also published more than a hundred articles appearing in international scientific and popular journals.
Jérémie Schiettecatte is a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. He holds a PhD in Near-Eastern archaeology from the Sorbonne University (Paris). His current interests lay in the archaeology and history of the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa from the Bronze Age to the Late Antiquity. He directed several research programs: “EmOAD – Emergence des oasis de l’Arabie déserte” (Sorbonne University) (2014-16) and “MAPARABIA — Mapping Ancient Arabia for enhancing knowledge and shifting paradigms” (National Research Agency, 2018-23). He authored 12 books and more than 80 scientific papers about ancient Arabia.
