Lebanese archaeologist
Claude Doumet-Serhal (b. 1958) is a Lebanese archaeologist specialising in the history and archaeology of Sidon. She is a Specialist Assistant at the British Museum and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.
Biography.
Doumet-Serhal studied at the Ecole du Louvre and has a PhD from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. After moving to London in 1993 she established the Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum. Doumet-Serhal launched a joint excavation between the British Museum and the Department of Antiquities of Lebanon in 1998 at Sidon which continued for 21 years. Excavations at Sidon have been her main research focus throughout her career and she has published extensively on this subject.
Doumet-Serhal was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 October 2009.
She was awarded an MBE in the 2010 New Year Honours list for services to archaeology.
Claude is a trustee of the Honor Frost Charitable Trust.
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