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Iraq

Jordan

The scholarly French presence on the territory of the current kingdom of Hachemite Jordan goes back to 1828, with the pioneer exploration of Petra by the engineer L. M. Linant de Bellefonds and the young Léon de Laborde. Their account was published in 1830 under the title Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée.

Laurent Tholbecq, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and director of the French archaeological mission at Petra

Palestine