2021 Sponsored Projects

This grant is for the preparation of a multi-authored, two-volume publication of the University of Michigan’s excavation of the late third millennium BCE mastaba tomb complex of Weni the Elder in the Middle Cemetery at Abydos, Egypt. A synopsis in Arabic...

Khirokitia settlement is located within about 6 km of the actual southern coastline of the island. It has been inscribed since 1998 on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The site was discovered and investigated between 1936 and 1946 by P. Dikaios (Department...

The mound of Hama is located in the Middle Orontes Valley. The Danish excavation at Hama, carried out from 1931 to 1938, was one of the earliest archaeological projects undertaken in Inland Western Syria. Since then, the material from Hama has played an...

Amrith (ancient Marathos) is a Late Phoenician-Hellenistic archaeological site located on the Syrian coastal region/Tartous Governorate. The site occupies a large flat area of about approx. 7 km in a north-south axis and its width varies between 1 and 2...

T he Archaeology of Daphne will be the first stand-alone study of Daphne (modern Harbiye, Turkey), the southern suburb of Antioch on the Orontes. Its springs and cypress groves intersected with temples, synagogues, and churches. Parades, festivals, and...

Archaeological investigations of the region between Gash and the Atbara rivers were conducted in the Eighties by the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Sudan (Kassala) of the Istituto Universitario Orientale and the Butana Archaeological Project of...

Tell Beydar is a site of ca. 22 ha size located near the right bank of the Wadi Uwaij, one of the tributaries of the Khabur river, ca. 30 km north of the provincial capital Hassake in a region defined commonly defined as the Syrian Jazira. With a long...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage . The last stage of the construction of an elevated highway connecting the main road to Cairo with the western harbour of Alexandria in 1996 in Gabbari district led to the discovery of a series of...

The purpose of the grant will be to study and publish the Neopalatial stratigraphic, ceramic and architectural sequence of the Palace at Malia (ca. 1700-1430 BCE), located on the north coast of Crete, Greece, and excavated in 1915 and 1919 by the Service...

This grant will support further study and an updated publication of The House of the Comedians Insula and its northern area in Delos (Greece), excavated by Ph. Bruneau and his team from 1961 to 1965. Our team has defined and registered all the fine...