2014 Sponsored Projects

Miri Qalat is the most important archaeological site of the Kech Valley in Kech-Makran located south-west of Pakistani Balochistan. Excavations carried out between 1990 and 1996 by the French Archaeological Mission in Makran led by Roland Besenval in...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage. The Iron Age capital on Kerkenes Dağ, probably the Pteria of Herodotus, is the largest pre-Hellenistic city on the Anatolian Plateau. Culturally Phrygian, as evinced by inscription, graffiti...

The site of Kvatskhelebi is one of the best-preserved Early Bronze Age settlements in the Shida Kartli region, in central-north Georgia and is situated near the town of Urbnisi on the north bank of the Kura river, 31 m. above the level of the river, on a...

Bir es-Safadi and Abou Matar are two key-sites of the Chalcolithic period (late 5th to early 4th Millennium BC). These two large settlements are today located on opposite sides of the Nahal (seasonal water course) Beer Sheva, now within the modern town of...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Brien Garnand, will publish all field diaries and images from the Kelsey excavations as part of the final report of the ASOR Punic Project excavations at the Carthaginian tophet (or tofet, literally "place of...

Kültepe I is an archaeological site located on the left bank of the Nakhchivan River, some 15 km upstream the junction with the Aras River in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Kültepe I is one of the few multi-period sites in the South...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. At the same time as southern Mesopotamians were creating the first cities and the first state-level societies, a very different cultural tradition and societal structure began in the mountains of the...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. The aim of the grant, awarded to Dr. Edward Brovarski, is to prepare the publication of the Old Kingdom tombs excavated by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr in the 1950s and early 1960s in the cemetery...