Yann Tristant studied at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne. After obtaining his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), focusing on the Nile Delta before the Pharaonic period, he joined the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO, Cairo) as a scientific member, then the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. He is professor at KU Leuven (Belgium) since 2021 where he teaches the archaeology of Egypt. His main areas of expertise are protohistory, funerary archaeology and human-environment relations. He has worked on many sites in Egypt. He is currently preparing the publication of the excavations carried out at Abu Rawash (Memphite region), an archaeological survey project in the Wadi Araba (Eastern Desert) and is leading the excavation of the Dendara Necropolis (Upper Egypt).

Dominique Farout is an art historian and epigraphist. He has been a member of Archéo-Nil since its foundation. He teaches Egyptian language and civilization at the Ecole du Louvre and the Institut Khéops, and is a member of the PLH-Crata of the Jean-Jaurès University in Toulouse. He participated in the excavations of Abu Rawash from 2002 to 2006, Tell Edfu from 2005 to 2007 and the Hatnub quarries since 2016.

Graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, Marie-Noël Bellessort is a professor of art history at the Penninghen School of Graphic Arts and Architecture, and a tutor in Egyptian archaeology at the Ecole du Louvre. Her research focuses on board games in the context of Egypt and the Near East. 

Archaeo-anthropologist at Éveha, Dr Chloé Girardi is a specialist in predynastic Egyptian mortuary practices and the first six dynasties. She holds a doctorate in archaeology from the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and is now an associate researcher at the ASM (Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies) laboratory of the same university. Trained in the principles and methods of archaeothanatology, she participates in the excavation of funerary sites in France and abroad (Saudi Arabia, Crete, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories). She is a member of the Dendara archaeological mission since 2018. 

Graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, Master in Roman History from the University of Paris IV-La Sorbonne and former student of the Institut National du Patrimoine, Ms. Laetitia Maggio is currently curator at the Regional Archaeology Service in Lille, within the Hauts-de-France Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs. She also teaches Egyptian archaeology and Roman history at the University of Lille and the University of Valenciennes. Her research focuses on Ramesside stelae and the cult of the royal colossus of the New Empire.

Jane Maurisson is a graduate of the École du Louvre and is currently a PhD candidate at Sorbonne Université within the Orient & Méditerranée laboratory. She specializes in Egyptian jewelry made from semi-precious stones. She has participated in two excavation campaigns in the Levant and is currently a member of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition, an American archaeological mission studying amethyst mines in the Eastern Desert.

Former student of the Ecole du Louvre and Doctor of Prehistory from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Dr Alice Leplongeon is currently a post-doctoral student at KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the prehistory (Palaeolithic) of East and North-East Africa, and in particular on the interactions between human populations and their environment over the last 50 millennia

Holder of a doctorate in Egyptology from the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and a postgraduate diploma from the Ecole du Louvre, Dr Bénédicte Lhoyer is a specialist in disability, illegality and marginality in ancient Egypt. Currently in post-doctoral studies at the CNRS (UMR 8560 - Centre Alexandre Koyré), she is also an associate professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and teaches at the École du Louvre. She has excavated in the Levant and in Egypt.