2020 Sponsored Projects

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...

Jebel (var. Gebel) Barkal, called “Pure Mountain” by the Egyptians, is an isolated butte on the right (north) bank of the Nile on the SW edge of modern Karima, Sudan, 354 km NNW of Khartoum. Located just below the Fourth Cataract, the hill marked the...

This grant will support the final publication of The Archaic complex on the south slope. Private and communal spaces on the Patela of Priniàs, concerning the excavations carried out on the south slope of the Patela of Priniàs by the Italian Archaeological...

PUBLISHED 2026. Please also visit the publication's webpage . The project supported by the White-Levy Program is the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey (CPAS), an international collaborative archaeological project that took place from 2005 through 2011...

Taşlı Geçit Höyük, an important Bronze Age and Iron Age site in the Islahiye Valley, Turkey Taşlı Geçit Höyük is a 4.5 ha site located in the Islahiye valley at the western fringes of the Gaziantep province (South-East Turkey). Since 1974, due to the...

The Prehistoric site Dja'de el-Mughara is located in Syria, in the northern Euphrates valley, in an ideal position between a major river and the steppes of the Fertile Crescent, cradle of the near‐eastern Neolithization processes. The site was excavated...

Cheikh Hassan (Euphrates valley, Syria) is one of the key Northern Levant sites on which the periodisation and definition of the Neolithic in the Near East were established. With a stratigraphy covering the 9 th millennium BCE (PPNA) and the beginning of...

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 large Late Bronze Age site of Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios near the south coast of Cyprus was excavated in 1979-98 as part of the research of the Vasilikos Valley Project, directed by Prof. Ian Todd and Alison South. A well-planned settlement of about...

This grant for the publication of the final monograph of the Syrian-French Archaeological Expedition of the Orontes conducted at Tell al-Nasriyah from August 2007 to April 2011. This project involved Syrian, Lebanese and European archaeologists and...