2024 Sponsored Projects

This project proposes to re-evaluate and publish with modern standards the material from Teleilat Ghassul preserved in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) archaeological museum. Teleilat Ghassul is located on a large 20 ha mound in the south Jordanian...

The island of Failaka is a foremost site for archaeologists because of the density of major settlements documenting the history of the Middle East during various periods. Many of these settlements were excavated by the French Mission in Kuwait. Between...

The project, titled "Rediscovering Roman Melite: UCLA Excavations 1983-1984 at the Melita Esplanade in Rabat (Malta)," aims to comprehensively reassess the unpublished archaeological excavations conducted by UCLA in the early 1980s. Situated in the...

Excavations at Kani Shaie in the Bazyan Valley (Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan), part of the land of Lullubum during the Bronze Age, documented a 6,000 year history of a community in the borderlands between the Zagros Mountains and the Mesopotamian...

Qurayyah, a 750 acres desert site, is one of most vast walled oases of the Arabian Peninsula: after Tayma, the one with the longest continuous encircling wall. It is located at 28° 47’ 00” N and 36° 00’ 27” E in the province of Tabuk (KSA). It is here...

Tel Michal (Makmish in Arabic) is located in the central coastal plain of Israel, on the southern coast of the modern city of Herzliya (32°16'29'' N, 34°80'07'' E). The site has an irregular form, comprising five separate components that cover areas of...

The small island of Tenedos, located on the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait (Hellespontus) just west of the coastline of ancient Troy in the northeast Aegean Sea (39° 49′ 59″ North and 26° 4′ 2″ East), was geographically very important during the Archaic...

Excavations at Saqqara, Egypt (WSG84 29.875278,31.221667), conducted in 1996 by a joint mission of the Australian Centre for Egyptology and the Supreme Council of Antiquities, found a stratified cemetery of modest burials north-east of the pyramid of 6th...

Adaima is located on the west bank of the Nile River, 8 km south of the modern city of Esna in Upper-Egypt. The site was inhabited from the Early Predynastic to the 3 rd Dynasty, i.e., 3800 to 2700 BCE. It covers 12 ha on the edge of the flood plain and...

Mudhmar is located in Ad-Dakhiliyah Governorate, 15km west of the Adam oasis, at the foot of the mountain of the same name. It is an isolated cultic site from the Early Iron Age (1300-300 BCE), on the edge of the desert zones, which has yielded very rare...