Through L'empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancient, the colleagues, students and friends of Francis Joannès wanted to show the great respect and attachment they have for him. This volume brings together articles on a wide-ranging theme that was one of the main threads running through the work of Francis Joannès, who worked, and still works, on the Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Greco-Macedonian empires. In particular, he was a pioneer in the study of the Achaemenid and Greco-Macedonian empires through cuneiform sources. He was one of the first to consider that the end of Babylonia's independence in no way marked the end of its economic, cultural and political history, a history that he devoted his career to reviving. However, the wealth of his work is far from being confined to this theme or period, and the variety of articles in this volume bears witness to this.
L'empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien is therefore intended to reflect the exceptional career of Francis Joannès and to symbolise the fact that the future will not be without his scientific and personal imprint.