The lecture was entirely in French, and was virtually incomprehensible to me, as my schoolboy French could not cope with fast, flowing French! However, the photographs and diagrams accompanying the lecture were excellent, and helped me to interpret what the lecture may have been about.
He seemed to explain that he was clearing the surface of the main platforms at the temple, which also included cutting a trench into a railway embankment built by the British in the 1920s. He explained that in one part of the temple, he found Middle Kingdom blocks re-used as the foundations for the Ptolemaic temple, and in another part he found foundations from a New Kingdom temple of Thutmosis III.
