Ancient World

Jean-Louis Brunaux

Jean-Louis Brunaux (1953 – 18 August 2026) was a French archaeologist and historian, a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), attached to the archaeology laboratory of the École normale supérieure. He specialised in the religion and society of Gaul in the Iron Age. Brunaux directed the excavation of the sanctuaries at Gournay-sur-Aronde and Ribemont-sur-Ancre in Picardy, which produced the largest deposits of Iron Age weaponry known from northern Europe. Brunaux is also known for his account of the druids, whom he presented as a learned order closer to Greek philosophers than to the sacrificing priesthood of earlier scholarship.

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• ▸Alexandrium
• ▸Jean Prosper Guivier
• ▸Abae

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