19 May 2025
The Jean Capart Fund is passing the baton to the Association Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth (AERE-EGKE) and is handing over a tool, its website, to showcase all those who contribute to the development of Belgian Egyptology. The objectives of the Jean Capart Fund have been achieved, and it is now being dissolved and merged into AERE-EGKE in order to support it in its ambitious programme of popula... Read more
28 March 2025
Hathor la Menit in the temples of Dendara and Edfu, a philological, iconographic, and semiological study by Catherine Châtelet Just published by AERE (Brepols), in French. Find out more in the Publications/Books section.... Read more
30 November 2022
A biography for the general public, richly illustrated, written by Jean-Michel Bruffaerts, has just been published in French and Dutch. Jean Capart. The Chronicler of Egypt is a biography of Jean Capart (1877-1947), the founder of Belgian Egyptology. Written by the historian Jean-Michel Bruffaerts, it is being published simultaneously in French by Éditions Racine and in Dutch by Éditions Lannoo o... Read more
4 January 2020
Discovering the forgotten pharaoh
The most mythical discovery in the history of archaeology…
In 1922, in the Valley of the Kings, an English archaeologist, Howard Carter, and his billionaire benefactor, Lord Carnarvon, entered the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the first people to do so since 3,200 years.
Once century later, now you can take a journey to the heart of the most famous tomb in the world and gaze over w...
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