2017 Sponsored Projects

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...

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...

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...

PUBLISHED 2024. Please view the publication's webpage. 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...

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...

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...

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 Middle Bronze Age located at the fringes of the North...

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...

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...

PUBLISHED 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Naga ed-Deir in Egypt was excavated over a period of years in the early twentieth century under the direction of George Reisner. Located on the east bank of the Nile, approximately 156...