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    The Natufian site of Eynan - 'Ain Mallaha (Galilee, Israel). Excavations 1996-2005

    Eynan ('Ain Mallaha in Arabic) is located 33° 08’ North, 35° 57’ East in Israel. It constitutes one of the largest known Natufian settlements occupied according to C14 dating between 14,500 and 11,700 BP. Eynan - Ain Mallaha is often described as one of the first villages of the Humankind. It is located in the Hula Basin, a part of the Upper Jordan Valley, not far from an ancient lake, near a perennial spring. This setting in a rich, humid environment favored the development of sedentary life as attested by a long sequence of semi-subterranean...

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    Sedeinga. The West Necropolis

    Sedeinga is a vast archaeological area located on the left bank of the Nile in Sudanese Nubia, between the second and third cataracts. It comprises many sites from different periods, which include the so-called ‘West Cemetery’, a Kushite necropolis that was fully excavated during four seasons, between 1964 and 1970, by a French-Italian team under the...

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    Old Kandahar: An Archaeological Reappraisal

    The spectacular ruins of Old Kandahar, in south Afghanistan, lie a little to the west of the modern city of the same name. A massive packed clay citadel is surrounded by a large enclosure of eroding mud brick fortifications running across the agricultural plain, up the slopes and along the sharp grey spine of the Qaitul ridge. During a brief period of peace in the 1970s the site was extensively excavated by a British team sponsored by the Society for Afghan Studies (then Society for South Asian...

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    Our 2016 Publications sponsored by the Program, along with our 2016 Grantees and their biographies and project abstracts, have been announced in our most recent E-NEWSLETTER (November 18, 2016).

    2011 Grantees Assaf Yasur-Landau and Michael Press have announced the publication of an article in the peer-reviewed journal Tel Aviv (vol.43, #...

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    On January 15, 2018, the Athens Archaeological Society organized a colloquium for the presentation of the results of the Marathon-Vrana tumuli project (grant awarded 2014). The colloquium, which was generously supported by INSTAP and the Shelby White Leon Levy Program for Archaeological...

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    A Sanctuary and the Necropoleis Excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter at Ancient Idalion

    Ancient Idalion was one of the city kingdoms of Iron Age Cyprus, its capital bearing the same name and located in the immediate neighbourhood of the modern village of Dali in the Republic of Cyprus. Especially the rich necropoleis did attract antiquity searchers such as Luigi Palma di Cesnola from the mid-19th century onwards. The earliest systematic excavations at Idalion were carried out by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter in the 80s and 90s of the 19th century, but they were never properly published. The present project is based on a series of unpublished documents issued from Max Ohnefalsch-...

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    The Domitian Villa: An Imperial Residence in Sabaudia, Italy

    The Domitian villa, located in the comune of Sabaudia (LT) in Italy is a majestic, long living, roman imperial residence that occupies a peninsula of 46 hectares facing from east the Lake of Paola. This villa, as important and articulated as the Adrian’s one, is a case study of considerable value both from an archaeological and methodological point of view. The first documented excavations at the Villa were undertaken during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). This work, conducted by Mons. Collicola...

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    Shelby White / Leon Levy

    LEON LEVY (co-founder)

    Leon Levy was not only a distinguished financier, but also a well-informed and generous patron of the arts....

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