Jean-Yves Empereur being interviewed on France24 in 2009. which were once part of the vast network of subterranean canals that supplied the city with fresh water from the Nile. Empereur and his team have personally overseen over a dozen rescue excavations across the city and regularly stumble upon centuries-old cisterns. Much of the ancient city now lies up to 10 metres below the modern street level and Alexandria has undergone rapid urban redevelopment over the past couple of decades. Empereur first visited Alexandria during a brief stint as a professor of linguistics at Cairo University and his interest in the ancient port city led him to move to Egypt, where he set up the Centre for Alexandrian Studies ( Centre d’Études Alexandrines) in 1990.Īs the founder and director of France’s official archaeological mission in Alexandria, Empereur became intimately aware of the city’s multicultural past, its significance as a major trading port in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods, and how the centuries of Greek, Roman and Islamic rule have shaped the modern-day city.
He spent the next decade as a researcher and then Secretary General of the French Archaeological School in Athens, specialising in the study of Hellenistic trade and commerce and participating in numerous on-land and underwater excavations in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. Jean-Yves Empereur began his illustrious academic career as a student of Classical Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne in the early 1970s before going on to complete a PhD in Archaeology in 1977. Lara’s friend Jean Yves was never heard from or spoken of again. Nevertheless, Eidos up kept their end of the bargain and replaced Jean Yves with a new character, Charles Kane, in T omb Raider: Chronicles.
In 2001, the Alexandria-based Egyptologist and archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur filed a complaint against Eidos Interactive for using his likeness in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, which prompted Eidos to issue a public apology through the French newspaper Le Monde and forced them to drop the Jean Yves character from any future game releases.Ī storm in a teacup, perhaps, but when you consider that the fictional Jean Yves shares Empereur’s given name, nationality, profession, fashion sense *and* also happens to live in Alexandria, it doesn’t take much imagination to see how Empereur had made the connection. An old photo of archaeologist Jean-Yves Empereur (left) and Lara’s friend Jean Yves from Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (right)
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