2023 Sponsored Projects

The site of Ayn Soukhna in the northern Gulf of Suez, identified in 1999, has been excavated by a French-Egyptian mission (IFAO, CNRS, Sorbonne, Suez Canal University) since 2001. It was one of the three known Pharaonic intermittent harbours and logistic...

The city of Tiberias is located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern day Israel (32°46" N, 35°32" E). It was founded in 19 CE by King Herod Antipas, and was continuously occupied until the Crusader conquest in 1099 CE. The Hebrew...

Tel Hadar (Sheikh Khadr) is a well-stratified mound in the central Levant, located on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee (32°51’2.96 “N, 35°38’58.46 “E). It was excavated between 1987 and 1998 by the late Moshe Kochavi and Pirhiya Beck as part of the...

Founded by Tarquinia in the last quarter of the 4th century BC, the city of Musarna (44°24'43.44 "N - 11°58'35.40 "E) occupies a central position within the vast territory of the great Etruscan metropolis. Along with other contemporary foundations, it was...

This grant will enable Jon M. Frey to make significant progress toward the publication of a monograph on the Roman Bath at the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, which will appear as a volume in the series dedicated to excavation of the site. Discovered in...

The village and its surrounds: Excavations, architecture and artefacts This project will see the publication of fieldwork from 1979–86 at the Workmen’s Village (27 ° 38’ N, 30° 54’ E) associated with the pharaonic Egyptian city of Akhetaten (modern Amarna...

The Valley of the Kings (KV) is most famous for the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), found in 1922. It was not until 2006, 84 years after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, that another tomb was discovered here: KV63. The excavation of KV63 was headed by...

The House of Fourni has been built in Delos, located 37°39143” North and 25°26947” East, in the heart of the Cyclades and off Mykonos. In ancient times it was considered a sacred island, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and despite its small size, it...

"Die Glyptik der mittelassyrischen Zeit aus Dūr-Katlimmu" During the reigns of the Middle-Assyrian kings Shalmaneser I (1263-1234 BC) and Tukulti-Ninurta I (1233-1197 BC) the city of Dur-Katlimmu, that is modern Tell Sheikh Hamad on the Habur in Syria (35...

Located in North Syria, on the left bank of the Euphrates river (36° 47’ 14’’ North, 38° 02’ 09’’ East), Tell Shiukh Fawqâni is one of the key-sites for investigating the still poorly known period marked by the collapse of the Hittite Empire and by the...