2018 Sponsored Projects

The ancient city of Nippur, 32 o07’ 35” N, 45 o14’ 00” E in present-day Iraq, was founded sometime in the 6 th millennium B.C. and was from the mid-third millennium until about 1800 B.C. the center of Sumerian civilization – the Sumerians themselves...

The book stands as the final report on surveys and territorial studies carried out in the region of Tell Mardikh/Ebla by the Sapienza University of Rome between 1964 and 2010, under the direction of P. Matthiae. Tell Mardikh (35°47'59.84"N, 36°47'53.10"E)...

Excavations at Satu Qala (Erbil, Iraq), identified with the Assyrian provincial capital Idu, highlighted for the first time the role of the region located south-east of Erbil, as a multicultural borderland both between Assyria and Babylonia and between...

This grant is to enable publication of the final report of a series of excavations of Iron Age burials within Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. The project is jointly run with Mr. Mikhei Abramishvili, of the Georgian...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. Sangtarashan ( 48/33/748E and 33/14/55N) is an archaeological site located in the heart of the Zagros Mountains, in the southern part of Luristan province in western Iran. It was discovered...

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 lies on the barren and deeply dissected Dhra‘ Plain, at the south-east corner of the Dead Sea in Jordan. However, in its heyday (9,200 - 8,300 cal BC) during the early Holocene, the settlement...

Kerma is an archaeological site located in the largest alluvial plain of the northern Sudan, upstream of the Third Cataract in Upper Nubia. G. A. Reisner, director of the Harvard-Boston Expedition, was the first to excavate parts of the site, including...

This grant will be for the study and publication of the final report of the excavations led from 2001 to 2012 at Ulug depe by the Turkmen ‐ French Archaeological Mission (MAFTur), directed by O. Lecomte and M. Mamedov (joint project of the French National...

The goal of this project is the full publication in a monograph of the Protopalatial pottery and its related contexts ( 19 th-18 th c. BC; Middle Minoan [=MM] IB-IIB ), as uncovered at the site of Hagia Triada (Crete) by the Italian Archaeological School...

PUBLISHED 2022. Please visit the publication's webpage. The Helmand Sistan Project (HSP) represents the only long-term, comprehensive survey and excavation project ever conducted in southwestern Afghanistan. In the field in the 1970s and sponsored jointly...