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...

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 upper limit of pharaonic settlement on the Nile following Egypt’s conquest of Nubia (Kush) about 1500 BCE. Here the Egyptians founded a frontier town called Napata and a sanctuary to their state god that would become the most important in Nubia. The Egyptians believed that the hill was the residence of a primeval form of Amun of Karnak at...

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 Mission in the years 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, with special reference to a large Archaic block built over older remains.

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...

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 construction of the Tahtaköprü reservoir dam, Taşlı Geçit Höyük suffered for 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 from 1991 to 2010 under the supervision of Dr. Eric Coqueugniot from the French National Research Council (CNRS). The grant will support the final publication of the results of the 18 excavation campaigns which brought to...

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 the 8^th millennium BCE (early stages of the PPNB), it encompasses two crucial milestones in the neolithisation processes of the Near East: the beginnings of agriculture and the onset of farming in sedentary communities. Despite its significance, the research conducted at...

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 first villages of the Humankind. It is located in the Hula Basin, a part of the Upper Jordan Valley, not far from an ancient lake, near a perennial spring. This setting in a rich, humid environment favored the development of sedentary life as attested by a long sequence of semi-subterranean...

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 10 hectares located near the coast, adjacent to a major river and close to copper sources, it was occupied about 1500-1200 BC (Late Cypriote IIA-C), and included a variety of types of domestic, industrial and administrative buildings all on the same orientation. At the north end of a long main street, the...

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 specialists.

Nasriyah is located at 18 km to the north-west of Hama, on the right bank of the Orontes, where it meets its Sarout tributary (...

In the hills northwest of the modern city of Durrës (Albania), the ancient Epidamne-Dyrrhachion, Vangjel Toçi unearthed from May 1970 to October 1971 a huge votive deposit dating from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period: about 1.8 t of figurative terracotta fragments with a majority of protomai (probably the largest find of this kind in the Mediterranean world), about 4 t of ceramic shards, more than 600 bronze coins, as well as some fragments of stone sculptures and bronze objects. The...

Ancient authors (from Strabo to Procopius) as well as recent studies have underlined the economic and administrative importance of the city of Taposiris Magna, located towards the western tip of the present Lake Mariout (or Maryut), west of Alexandria, in Egypt (30°56'21.52''N / 29°31'20.44''E). The archaeological settlement, attested from the 3rd c. BC to the beginning of the 8th c. AD, owes its fortune to its strategic location, between the Mediterranean and the lake, in a prosperous region in antiquity, the Mareotis,...

The Polis-Peristeries sanctuary preserves remarkable evidence for the use of ancient sacred
space.

For nine years (1988–1991, 1994–1997, 2000), the Princeton Cyprus Expedition excavated an
Iron Age sanctuary in the locality of Peristeries in Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus, the location of the
ancient city of Marion. This sanctuary dedicated to the female goddess of Cyprus was in use for
half a millennium, from ca. 950 to ca. 450 BCE. The sanctuary escaped the attention of early
excavators in the 19th and early 20th centuries and was nearly untouched by...