Code of ethics

of the French Society of Egyptology  

(voted unanimously by the Committee on November 24, 2022)

The French Society of Egyptology is a non-profit association whose purpose is to publicize and develop studies and research relating to ancient Egypt, in particular through publications and conferences. The SFE promotes exemplary behaviour, ethics and professional ethics with regard to Egyptian heritage. 

In view of this, contributors to SFE conferences and publications undertake to:

- guarantee the ethics of their research and the integrity of their scientific approach, and declare any conflicts of interest, personal, professional or financial;

- produce only original text of which they are the authors; 

- have, where appropriate, the right from the correct authority to study the objects or sites they present and concerning which they publish; 

- for the presentation of artefacts that are distant from their site of origin, report as exhaustively as possible on what is known to them on the modern and contemporary history of these artefacts or, failing that, explicitly state that they do not have such knowledge; 

- refrain from any publication relating to an object which they know or have serious reasons to believe has been acquired or is kept in disregard of the Unesco Convention of 24 April 1972 on cultural property, the Law 117 of 1983 of the Arab Republic of Egypt on Egyptian Heritage, or any other convention, law or regulation relating to the protection of heritage.