Marie-Cécile Truc

Biography

She works for Inrap where she serves as an excavation director, specializing in the Middle Ages in northern France. Her primary research focuses on countryside settlements, rural cemeteries, and metal artifacts. She directed and published an excavation at Saint-Dizier, uncovering three exceptionally rich graves dating back to the 6th century. Additionally, she conducts research on medieval diseases such as the Justinian plague and leprosy. For a decade, she directed the excavation of the leprosy site at Aizier in Normandy, France, and is presently engaged in the publication of its findings.