Claude Doumet-Serhal

She is a Specialist Assistant at the British Museum and an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London.

[1] 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.

[1] 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.

[1] Excavations at Sidon have been her main research focus throughout her career and she has published extensively on this subject.