Entre deux rives, une houleuse histoire de notes, de plans, de photographies

Overview & Synopsis

With the independence of Morocco, followed in 1962 by the one of Algeria, were gathered in Aix-en-Provence not only a large part of the personnel of the services of Antiquities of Rabat and Algiers, but also a whole documentation on excavations carried out by France in the Maghreb countries, from Morocco to Libya. The reasons for these deposits, the role assigned to the Aix-en-Provence archaeological research center at the time of the independence of the Maghreb countries, the evolution of this center and the relationships, or non-relationships, that followed, between myth and reality, it is the history of these deposits accumulated for more than half a century within a laboratory also with a complex history that we will revisit. They are also human stories, the stories of archaeologists, a group of connected persons at the origin of the documentary collections of the Aix laboratory who are trying to gradually open up to sharing.