Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée

[1] Anne Schmitt, CNRS, took over directorship from Rémy Boucharlat on 1 January 2011 and conducts research programs within the Archéométrie et archéologie laboratory - UMR 5138 of the MOM.

Nathalie Donjon has served as secretary general since 2007, after being recruited in 1988 and attached to the CNRS research administration.

It employs 350 people including archaeologists, epigraphists, historians, with the help of physicists, chemists and geologists.

This federation is linked to the Lumière University Lyon 2 and is especially concerned with historico-morphological studies.

[3] MOM has also created an online application, an atlas of near east archaeological sites 14000 to 5700 BP, presenting work by a large number of archaeologists.