M'hamed Hassine Fantar


M'hamed Hassine Fantar is a professor of Ancient History and Archeology and religions history at the universities of Tunis.

Biography

He was born in Ksar Hellal and received a BA in Classics from University of Strasbourg and a PhD in History from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Within the National Institute of Archeology and Art, which later became the National Heritage Institute, he served as Research Director before becoming General manager between 1982 and 1987.
Director of the Division of Museums, then Director of Center for the Study of Phoenician-Punic Civilization and Libyan Antiquities, he's the Founder of the Revue des études phéniciennes-puniques et des antiquités libyques .
Professor emeritus of the universities, he teaches archeology and history of the West-Semitic and Libyan religions at the university of Tunis.
He's Member of the Association for the Promotion of Studies on Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval North Africa, of the Committee on Historical and Scientific Works and the World Heritage Committee. He's also a Corresponding Member at the German Archaeological Institute, at the Real Academia de la Historia and at the Accademia dei Lincei.
President of the Tunisian Association for History and Archeology, he's the author of many books and a hundred of academic papers devoted to the
Ancient Carthage.

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