PUBLISHED 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage.

The Maltese Archipelago (and its deep history) is located at a significant juncture. These islands,
situated between the northern and southern shorelines of the Mediterranean, were first inhabited in
the 6th millennium BCE. Unsurprisingly, the...

On the west bank of a tributary to the Yellow river, Didong site (N34°34′03.75”, E110°27′10.55”, 360 meters above sea level) has a total area of 100,000 square meters or so and is one of the sites which has been relatively well-protected in the area of western Henan province. The site has been excavated in an area of 800 square meters and has provided abundant remains of the Yangshao Culture, including over 60 house ruins, tombs , and caves, as well as a great number of vessels made from pottery, stones and bones, etc. The new discoveries found here have changed the understanding of the...

On the west bank of a tributary to the Yellow river, Didong site (N34°34′03.75”, E110°27′10.55”, 360 meters above sea level) has a total area of 100,000 square meters or so and is one of the sites which has been relatively well-protected in the area of western Henan province. The site has been excavated in an area of 800 square meters and has provided abundant remains of the Yangshao Culture, including over 60 house ruins, tombs , and caves, as well as a great number of vessels made from pottery, stones and bones, etc. The new discoveries found here have changed the understanding of the...

Excavations at Umm el-Marra (ancient Tuba?) in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo (36° 08' North, 37°41' East), conducted by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam 1994-2010, have provided important information on the flourishing urban civilization of Early Bronze Age (ca. 3000-2000 BC) western Syria. A complex of ten monumental elite tombs on the site acropolis, together with the sacrificial installations of buried equids and human infants, supplies a unique and sizeable set of data on elite ideologies and elite mortuary rituals, including ancestor veneration and...

Tell Aswad is considered to be a reference site for the Neolithic of the Near East. This early farming village is an important part of Syria’s archaeological heritage that is under threat. The site of Tell Aswad is situated at 600 masl and 30 km east of Damascus (33º24’14” N; 36º33’00” E), Syria, and was excavated by Dr D. Stordeur (Emeritus CNRS, France) between 2001 and 2007. Occupied during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Tell Aswad is of major interest in relation to the origins and development of early farming communities in the Near East. Situated on the banks of an ancient lake in a...

Volume III, in 2 parts, was published in 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage.

The site today known as Troy (Turkish Hisarlık, Homer’s Ilios, Greek and Roman Ilion/Ilium) is situated in northwestern Asia Minor, five kilometers from the present coastline at the Dardanelles (...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please visit the publication's webpage.

The grant will support the publication program of the final report on the excavations of the lower town at Tilmen Höyük, a capital city of the...

The grant will support the final publication of the 3rd millennium pottery discovered at Terqa while the French expedition directed by Prof. O. Rouault was excavating the site in the seasons 1987-2009. Terqa (modern-day Tell Ashara) is a medium tell of 8 ha located in the Lower Middle Euphrates region, on the right bank of the river. The archaeological research carried out revealed important levels of occupation dated to the 2nd and to the 3rd millennia B.C. Nevertheless, Terqa is best known for its 2nd millennium B.C. levels. The Royal Archive of Mari provides us with very interesting...

his grant will fund the much-needed publication of the temple of Sanam in Sudan. Dating to the mid-first millennium BC, the temple was excavated by Francis Llewellyn Griffith in 1912 and is located near the modern town of Karima at the fourth cataract of the Nile. The larger site of Sanam (ancient Napata), of which the temple forms part, was the religious and administrative center of the Nubian state in the mid-first millennium BC. The temple is especially significant among Nubian monuments of this period because of the evidence it offers for the non-Egyptian structure of the Napatan...

The main focus of this research is the analysis of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and Late Bronze Age (LBA) unpublished ceramic assemblages and related archaeological contexts from two case-studies, Tell Barri and Tell Bazi, both located in what is now Northern Syria, in the region identified with Northern Mesopotamia. Tell Barri, identified with ancient Kahat, is a multi-period site located on the left bank of wadi Jaghjagh, in the Upper Khabur Basin, between the modern cities of al-Qamishlie and al-Hassake. Tell Bazi is a Bronze Age settlement located in the Tishreen Dam area of the Upper...

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage.

Ancient Yathill, known today as Barâqish (16° 01’ 06” N - 44° 48’ 16” E) in the Yemeni Jawf, was the second major city in the Kingdom of Ma‛în after the capital...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please view the webpage for the volume HERE.

The ancient military harbour of Kition-Bamboula lies at the heart of the modern city of Larnaca, Cyprus (34°92’’ North, 33°63’’ East). Excavations conducted by the French Archaeological Mission (dir. M. Yon) between 1987 and 1998 cleared impressive shipsheds dating to the...

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-...

Located in the lower Orontes River Valley of western Syria, Tell Qarqur is a 30-meter tall, 12-hectare mound which was the focus of an American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)-sponsored excavation project from 1983-2010. While the site is best known for its probable association with the Iron Age city of Qarqar, investigations at Tell Qarqur have found an extraordinarily long occupational history, with a nearly continuous record of settlement from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (c.8000 BC) through the Mamluk period (c.1450 AD). Excavations have produced particularly robust exposures of...