David Duponchel

Biography

He is a historian, cultural manager, and filmmaker. He studied Ancient History at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Ecole Practique des hautes Etudes, and Film at the Sorbonne, Paris. After earning a degree in film, he enrolled in the film directing program at the prestigious FAMU Film and Television School in Prague, where he was a student of director Vera Chytilová, earning a Master's degree. He later moved to Peru, where he resumed his scientific research on divination in ancient civilizations. In 2018, he obtained his PhD in Assyriology from the University of West Brest, France, with his thesis "Comparative Studies of Extispicine Divination in the Paleo-Babylonian and Inca Periods." He is a s...