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Venceslas Kruta

| birth_place = Saumur, France | citizenship = French | workplaces = Sorbonne University
École pratique des Hautes Études | education = Sorbonne University |occupation=Archaeologist, historian|notable_works=''Les Celtes, histoire et dictionnaire'' (2000)}} Venceslas Kruta (born 4 November 1939) is a French archaeologist and historian. He is the director of European protohistory studies at the École pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Professor emeritus at the Sorbonne University. Kruta has also directed the Centre d'Études Celtiques in Paris and the journal ''Études Celtiques,'' and has chaired the editorial board of the journal '''' (CNRS).

Kruta specializes on the protohistory of Europe, more specifically the commercial and cultural relations between Central Europe and the Mediterranean. He has directed numerous excavation sites, most notably the parvis of Notre-Dame and the Square Court of the Louvre in Paris. Kruta is a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Real Academia de la Historia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and the . Provided by Wikipedia