-A good command of English is highly recommended, as it is the project’s official working language (for documentation, reports, etc.), in accordance with
@RCU_SA
's guidelines. -A formal internship agreement must be signed between your university and the @cnrs.fr

Requirements:

-Applicants must be in the final year of their undergraduate studies or enrolled in a Master’s program in Archaeology (or equivalent).

-In addition to their professional duties, interns are expected, like other team members, to contribute to the collective life of the team (participation in dishwashing and cleaning/maintenance of shared spaces, etc.).

Conditions:

-Accommodation and meals will be provided.
-Travel expenses to AlUla (from within KSA) will be reimbursed based on the cost of an economy-class flight.
-Interns will be housed in the project’s dig house, sharing rooms (2–3 people per room).

-Stratigraphic excavation
-Recording stratigraphic units and artifacts
-Field photography and photogrammetry (3D recording)
-Artifact documentation and registration
-Database management and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

or the Late Antique village (3rd–7th centuries CE). They will participate in both fieldwork and laboratory activities, receiving training in all aspects of field archaeology, including:

The excavation season will run from March 30 to May 14, 2026. Internships will last a minimum of three weeks during this period. Interns will be assigned to one of the project’s two main excavation areas: either the ancient city (late 3rd millennium BCE to 3rd century CE)

Dr. Chloé Girardi — Worship in the Shadows: A Funerary Shrine in the Lihyanite Necropolis of Dadan (al-ʿUlā, KSA
)
Dr. Shadi SHABO — Ceramic Production in the Dadan (al-ʿUlā) and Khaybar Oases during the Bronze Age: A Regional Perspective
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Organized by AFALULA on behalf of RCU, this program aims to equip RCU Rawis (tour guides) with a deeper understanding of archaeological research and methodologies, fostering more informed and engaging heritage interpretation.

This visit was a special moment for the Dadan Archaeological Project, as it brought together those who excavated the site with the results of five years of collective work now shared with the public.

with key contributions from Dr Chloé Girardi, Dr Fabien Lesguer, Dr Shadi Shabo, Dr Irene Rossi, Dr Fokelien Kootstra, Josselin Pinot, and Xavier Desormeau.

Under the co-direction of Dr Jérôme Rohmer (CNRS) and Dr Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani (RCU), the DAP team brought together a broad range of expertise to shape the exhibition,

These three millennia of history are now presented to the public in the new permanent exhibition at the Dadan Visitor Center: “Illuminating Discoveries: Uncovering the Layers of Dadan’s History”, curated by AFALULA and RCU to highlight the project’s results.

Building on the results of earlier investigations by King Saud University, the project’s large-scale excavations and surveys have revealed an unexpectedly long history spanning more than three millennia, contributing to reshaping our understanding of ancient Northwest Arabia.

Since 2020, the Dadan Archaeological Project (DAP) – carried out by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in collaboration with RCU and AFALULA – has shed new and critical light on the history of ancient Dadan, one of the major oasis cities of ancient Northwest Arabia.

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