2022 Sponsored Projects

The multi-layered mound of Zeytinli Bahçe is located on a low river terrace along the left bank of the Euphrates, immediately south of the modern city of Birecik, in the province of Şanlıurfa, in Southeastern Turkey (coordinates: 36°59'45"N; 37°58'45"E)...

The city of Messene in the southwest Peloponnese was founded in 369 BC when the Thebans liberated the region from Spartan control. The city thrived in Hellenistic and Roman times and excavations have revealed the expansive and impressive remains of the...

Chagar Bazar is a cluster of mounds with human occupations from the Bronze Age but with a rich Neolithic sequence from the Halaf period. The settlement is a long-duration site located in Syria on the wadi Dara, a tributary of the Khabour River, c. 35 km...

Theopetra Cave is located in the northwestern corner of the plain of Thessaly in Central Greece (39.67991, 21.68122). Facing north from a prominent limestone hill of the same name, it lies approximately 5.5km southeast of the Municipality of Meteora and...

Since the first excavations between 1904 and 1906, Koumasa ( 34° 58' North, 25° 0' East, in the south-central part of the island of Crete) occupies a prominent position in Minoan archaeology. Located strategically on the foothills of Eastern Asterousia...

Excavations by Małgorzata Grębska-Kulow in 2003, 2009; Geomagnetic surveys by Petar Zidarov in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The grant will be used for the preparation of the final publication of the archeological and geomagnetic reports of three Neolithic sites...

The grant will support the publication program of the final report on the excavations of the citadel at Tilmen Höyük, a capital city of the Middle Bronze Age Northern Levant (Gaziantep province, South-Eastern Turkey). The excavations of the Turco-Italian...

The project focuses on the final publication of the excavations at the Fortress Mound at Tel Arad, located on the northern edge of the Beersheba–Arad Valley in southern Israel (162 o North, 075 o East). During the 1960s, a team directed by Y. Aharoni...

Claudia Näser , the lead researcher of this publication project, together with Jens Weschenfelder, the author of the envisaged publication, joined the Merowe Dam Archaeological Salvage Project upon invitation by the National Corporation for Antiquities...

Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the...