Bernadette Menu


Bernadette Menu is a French archaeologist and Egyptologist, whose research work on ancient Egypt is widely known. She is mother of the writer Jean-Christophe Menu.

Career

Bernadette Menu is Honorary Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, president of the Association internationale pour l’étude du droit de l’Égypte ancienne and former professor of Ancient Egyptian at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III and Institut Catholique de Paris. Her illustrated pocket book about Ramesses II, Ramsès II : Souverain des souverains, from the collection “Découvertes Gallimard”, has been translated into eight languages, including English.

Publications