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, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. He was born in Paris in March 1926. A student of

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, he was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. The results of his work are documented in numerous publications. He died in September 2019 at the age of 93.Comte Henri de CONTENSON
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Books

*1966 - ''La Basilique Chrétienne d'Aksha'' (The Christian Basilica of Aksha), Aksha I, Paris, 1966 (with appendices by J. de Heinzelin and P. Leman). *1992 - ''Préhistoire de

Ras Shamra Ugarit (; uga, 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚, ''ʾUgarītu''; ar, أُوغَارِيت ''Ūġārīt'' or ''Ūǧārīt'') was an ancient port city in northern Syria, in the outskirts of modern Latakia, discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugariti ...

'' (Prehistory of Ras Shamra), I. Text, II. Figures and plates, Ras Shamra-Ougarit VIII, ERC, Paris, 1992 (in collaboration with Jacques Blot, Liliane Courtois, Monique Dupeyron & Arlette Leroi-Gourhan). *1995 - '' Aswad et Ghoraifé, sites néolithiques en Damascène (Syrie) aux IXe et VIIIe millénaires avant l'ère chrétienne,'' B.A.H. CXXXVII, Beyrouth, 1995 (in collaboration with Patricia Anderson, Marie-Claire Cauvin, Jacques Clère, Pierre Ducos, Monique Dupeyron, Claudine Maréchal & Danielle Stordeur). *2000 - '' Ramad, site néolithique en Damascène (Syrie) aux VIIIe et VIIe millénaires avant l'ère chrétienne,'' B.A.H. 157, Beyrouth, 2000 (in collaboration with Marie-Claire Cauvin, Liliane Courtois, Pierre Ducos, Monique Dupeyron, Willem van Zeist). *2001 - (in collaboration with Pierre de Longuemar) Mémorial 1939–1945, EHRET, Paris, 2001. *2004 -'' 50 ans de tessons. Propos sur l'Archéologie palestinienne'', Paris, 2004. *2005 - ''Antiquités éthiopiennes. D'Axoum à Haoulti,'' Bibliothèque Peiresc 16, Saint-Mandé, *2007 - (in collaboration with Pierre de Longuemar) Mémorial 1939–1962, Paris, 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Contenson, Henry Scientists from Paris 1926 births 2019 deaths École du Louvre alumni French archaeologists Members of the Société Asiatique