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    Excavations at Ra’s al-Jinz (Sultanate of Oman): The Coastal Sharquiyyah From the Neolithic to the Iron Age

    The bay of Ra’s al-Jinz (Oman) constitutes a single archaeological compound, with a continuous occupational history from the 6th millennium BCE onwards. The main occupation, RJ-2, is one of the foremost Bronze Age settlements in the region, providing a well-documented sequence of over 500 years throughout the Umm an-Nar period (ca. 2500-2000 BCE). The monograph edited by V. Azzarà and G. Gernez will present the data of the French-Italian excavations conducted at Ra’s al-Jinz from 1985 to 2011, under the scientific direction of Serge Cleuziou† (University of Paris 1) and Maurizio Tosi (...

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    Tell Kazel (Syria). Settlement development and material culture during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Excavations in Area II (1985-2008)

    This grant will aid in the publication of “Tell Kazel (Syria). Settlement development and material culture during the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. Excavations in Area II (1985-2008)”. Archaeological investigations at Tell Kazel (southern coast of Syria) were carried out by the American University of Beirut for more than 25 years, under the directorship of Dr. Leila Badre, Director of the AUB Archaeological Museum. Excavations have brought to light a long occupational sequence spreading from the Middle Bronze to the Hellenistic ages, including two main phases dated to the Late...

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    Naqada Publication Project

    The Naqada Publication Project aims to produce a comprehensive publication of the results of archaeological investigations conducted by the Italian Archaeological Mission of the ‘Istituto Universitario Orientale’, Naples, at the site of Naqada, Egypt, under the direction of C. Barocas, deceased in 1989, with co-principal investigators R. Fattovich and M. Tosi. Naqada, or ancient Nubt, is best known for its extensive cemeteries dated to the Predynastic period (c. IV millennium BC). In 1977–1986, archaeological investigations of the Italian expedition focused on the corresponding...

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    Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus

    The Greco-Roman port-city of Kourion lies on a plateau overlooking the south coast of Cyprus, just west of Akrotiri Peninsula (Lat. 34.667; Long. 32.883). One of its most striking features is the cemetery that lines the road leading up to the Amathous Gate on the south-eastern side of its Acropolis. The tombs range from the Hellenistic to Late Roman period (3rd century BC to 7th century AD), and include a rich range of artefactual material and the very well preserved skeletal remains of at least 111 individuals. Closely associated with this material is a range of other interesting and...

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    Ancient Bactra and Its Oasis (Afghanistan) During Protohistory: The Work Led by the Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan

    This grant will be for the study and publication of the final report of the Protohistoric occupation of Ancient Bactra and contemporary sites of Bactra oasis, excavated between 2004 and 2009 by the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan (DAFA) under the direction of R. Besenval with the help of Ph. Marquis.
    Ancient Bactra is located in northern Afghanistan, in the center of the modern city of Balkh. Famous for its mentions by the historians of Alexander the Great as the capital of the Achaemenids in Central Asia, Bactra was in fact settled since at least the end of the 2nd...

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    Peking University’s excavations at Liulihe

    The Liulihe site, the capital of the Yan state in the Western Zhou period (ca.1050-770 BC), is located at Beijing Fangshan, not far from the northern end of the Huabei Plain in east China. The site was first found and excavated in 1962 by the archaeology department of Peking University. From 1995 to 1997, we excavated the site again and turned our attention from the city's cemetery to the history of the settlement. Three seasons of excavation has accumulated a vast amount of important data. The publication of the volume will greatly benefit not only the study of Yan culture, the Western...

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    Material culture and identities in Late Bronze Age Ugarit (Syria). Geo-urban sociology of a cosmopolitan Mediterranean capital. The study of three areas: the “South City”, the "South Acropolis" and the “Aegean district”

    Located on the Syrian coast, the site of Ras Shamra is one of the Levant's iconic heritage sites. The
    archaeological mission of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, a joint Syrian-French effort since 1999, is the oldest
    French mission in the Near East and Ugarit is one of the longest-running excavations of French
    archaeology overseas. Since 2014, research has been overseen by Valerie Matoïan and Khozama Al-Bahloul.
    Work is undertaken under the auspices of the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums of
    Syria (DGAMS)...
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