Chloé Capel is a field archaeologist who specializes in the medieval history of North and Saharan Africa. She received her PhD in medieval archaeology from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and served as a lecturer in Islamic arts at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris for 10 years before becoming a full time researcher at the National Center for Scentific Research in France. Chloé is a specialist of the famous caravan city of Sijilmassa –located in southeastern Morocco –she dedicated her PhD dissertation to. For ten years, she has been co-directing one major archaeological excavations of Morocco, located in Aghmat, next to Marrakech, which was a powerful and thriving medieval trade city. More recently she has developped a new archaeological program focusing on a former caravan city lost under the sand of Mauritania, south of Morocco.