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It is a religious building dating back to the Romanesque period », Gaël Carré, from the archaeological service of the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (Drac), summed up during the last review of the restorations of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste church.

On Friday, June 17, it is the archaeologist researcher at Archeodunum, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, who will present to the public the archaeological study of the building that he has carried out. According to him, it is the only medieval church in the whole of Normandy that preserves ancient masonry dated to this day ». For him, the discovery was possible because an integral stitching of the plasters of the masonry was carried out before repair, we carried out a reliable dating (II^e – IV^e century) thanks to the analysis of the pieces of wood used for the construction of the walls.

Jean-Baptiste Vincent, whose research is carried out over a wide great West, believes it is quite rare in the life of an archaeologist to find an architectural ensemble, of which so many periods of construction can be defined, from antiquity to the XVIII^e century. From a chronological point of view, it is an open book.

Friday, June 17, at 18 p.m., presentation of the archaeological study of the church. Conviviality room 56, rue du Général-de-Gaulle. Free entrance.

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The locations of Jewish heritage sites in Ukraine were conveyed to Anatoly Viktorov, the Russian ambassador to Israel, on Wednesday by Yaakov Hagoel, the president of the World Zionist Organization (WZO).

This initiative was taken in order to anticipate the damage that could be caused to these sites by the Russian military.

Ukraine is indeed home to very important heritage sites of the Jewish cultural and religious heritage. Among them are memorial sites and monuments to the victims of the Holocaust, such as those in Babi Yar, Lviv and Donetsk, Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and graves of important Jewish figures.

The map transmitted to the Russian ambassador was created as a result of a field survey specially conducted by the WZO.

It showed that a number of sites have already been damaged, and many are at risk of collateral damage due to the fighting raging in some parts of the country.

Anatoly Viktorov said that he would forward the document to Moscow as soon as possible.

« As a national organization of the Jewish people working for the sustainability of its existence and heritage, we must do everything in our power to preserve these sites for future generations, » Yaakov Hagoel said.