y name is Sylvain CABARET, I'm 24 years old, and I live close to Montpellier, south of France.

My degree course is rather traditional : after a DEUG of History of Art and Archaeology and a Licence of Archaeology, I integrate the Center of Egyptology François DAUMAS of the University Paul Valéry of Montpellier (MTP III) in order to pass there my Master and my D.E.A., which I obtained, in 2004 and 2005, with a mention "Very Good" and "Good".

My two years of research in Egyptology concentrated only on the study of the nemes headcloth.

It should be known that except the short studies of ABUBAKR (Untersuchungen über die ägyptischen Krönen, Glückstadt, 1937) and of EVERS (Staat aus dem Stein, Munich, 1929), and of rare articles (for example, that of K. GOEBS "Untersuchungen zu Funktion und Symbolgehalt of the nms", ZÄS 122, 1995), the nemes really was never studied (like, moreover, two other Egyptian headcloths, the khat and the afnet).

The purpose of my work of Master was thus to make a first study on the nemes, to define its origins, its evolution and its typology during a maximum of reigns and to know if it could be a good element of dating.

The result was a study of nearly 150 pages (Vol. I) accompanied by a catalogue (Vol. II) gathering a selection of photographs of nemes (approximately 130), as well as many drawings summaries of the forms observed for a maximum of reigns.

My work for the D.E.A was quite different.

Instead of carrying out a traditional study "paper", I proposed to my various professors (Mr. Sydney AUFRERE, Mr. Marc GABOLDE, Mr. Frederic SERVAJEAN and especially Jean-Claude GRENIER, whom I can warmly thank here) to carry out, on computer, a programme of dating on the headcloth.

This program includes a detailed description of the nemes and his various constituent parts, the program of dating itself (allowing to date a complete or incomplete nemes, while notching, for each constituent part, of the preselected criteria) and an important data base made up of more than 400 photographs, a hundred drawings and of almost sixty descriptive cards of the headcloth according to reigns'.

I currently seek to make publish my program near specialized publishers.

Then, finally, this site was created, first of all, with an aim of making known my research with a larger audience, but also in order to present my program, because the site takes again in fact the first part of this one.