Paul Bernard (archaeologist)

This article is about the French archaeologist. For other people, see Paul Bernard.

Paul Bernard
Born	(1929-06-13)June 13, 1929 Sainte-Maxime, France
Died	December 1, 2015(2015-12-01) (aged 86) Meulan-en-Yvelines
Known for	Director of excavations at Ai-Khanoum
Scientific career
Fields	Classical archaeology
Institutions	DAFA, EPHE

Paul Bernard (13 June 1929 – 1 December 2015) was a French archaeologist, best known for excavating the Hellenistic site of Ai-Khanoum in present-day Afghanistan between 1964 and 1978. In his role as director of excavations, Bernard wrote several treatises on the excavations on the site. He also produced the accounts of Ai-Khanoum that had the most influence on the scholarship on the city: foremost among these was a 1982 article in Scientific American titled 'An Ancient Greek City in Central Asia', which presented the city as a Hellenistic colony in Central Asia. His emphasis on the Greek traditions of Ai-Khanoum have influenced all subsequent accounts of the Hellenistic Far East.

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Sources

• Bernard, Paul (1982). "An Ancient Greek City in Central Asia". Scientific American. No. 246. pp. 148–159. JSTOR 24966505. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
• Mairs, Rachel (2014). The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia (1st ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520292468. JSTOR 10.1525/j.ctt7zw3v4. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
• Martinez-Sève, Laurianne (2020). "Afghan Bactria". In Mairs, Rachel (ed.). The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (1st ed.). Routledge. pp. 217–248. doi:10.4324/9781315108513-13. ISBN 9781315108513. S2CID 243416462.