Sponsored Projects 1997-2019

The Alassa Archaeological Project Excavations at the Late Bronze Age Sites of Alassa - Pano Mandilaris and Paliotaverna 1984–2000

The Nubian Cemeteries at Hierakonpolis: Exploring cultural identity in Middle Kingdom Egypt

The purpose of this project is to make available the full corpus of evidence recovered from the 2001-2007 excavation of three discrete Nubian cemeteries at Hierakonpolis, Egypt in a volume entitled: The Nubian Cemeteries at Hierakonpolis: Exploring...

Sedeinga. The West Necropolis

Sedeinga is a vast archaeological area located on the left bank of the Nile in Sudanese Nubia, between the second and third cataracts. It comprises many sites from different periods, which include the so-called ‘West Cemetery’, a Kushite necropolis that...

The site of Maadi in the Late Prehistory of Lower Egypt: internal sequence, characteristics of the settlement, external relations. The results of the Italian mission and the research on the site and in the region

Kerkenes

Kvatskhelebi: An Early Bronze Age Village in the Shida Kartli Region, Georgia

The site of Kvatskhelebi is one of the best-preserved Early Bronze Age settlements in the Shida Kartli region, in central-north Georgia and is situated near the town of Urbnisi on the north bank of the Kura river, 31 m. above the level of the river, on a...

Publication of Excavation VII at Sarazm, Tajikistan

The Finds from the Chalcolithic Settlements of Bir es-Safadi and Abu Matar (5th Millennium BC, Northern Negev, Israel)

Bir es-Safadi and Abou Matar are two key-sites of the Chalcolithic period (late 5th to early 4th Millennium BC). These two large settlements are today located on opposite sides of the Nahal (seasonal water course) Beer Sheva, now within the modern town of...

Excavations of the Sanctuary of Tanit at Carthage, 1925

This publication project, directed by Dr. Brien Garnand, will publish all field diaries and images from the Kelsey excavations as part of the final report of the ASOR Punic Project excavations at the Carthaginian tophet (or tofet, literally "place of...

Kültepe I from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The Results of the Excavations Directed by O. A. Abibullav Between 1951 and 1964

Kültepe I is an archaeological site located on the left bank of the Nakhchivan River, some 15 km upstream the junction with the Aras River in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Kültepe I is one of the few multi-period sites in the South...

Tell Tweini Excavations 1999-2007

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Tell Tweini is located on the southern bank of the Rumeilah River in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km south of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, capital...

A View from the Highlands: The History of Shengavit, Armenia in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. At the same time as southern Mesopotamians were creating the first cities and the first state-level societies, a very different cultural tradition and societal structure began in the mountains of the...

Field A at Tell Tweini

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's website. The site of Tell Tweini is located on the southern bank of the Rumeilah River in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km south of Ras Shamra-Ugarit, capital...

The Seals and Sealings of Tell Beydar/Nabada (Seasons 1995 - 2001): A Progress Report.

PUBLISHED 2011. Please visit the publication's webpage. Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada) is located in the Upper Syrian Jezireh. Its main occupation dates back to the Early Dynastic/Early Jezireh IIIb period during which time Beydar was subordinate to Tell...

The Proto-Elamite Settlement and its Neighbors: Tepe Yahya Period IVC

PUBLISHED 2013. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Tepe Yahya in southeastern Iran is famous, among other important aspects, for the Proto-Elamite complex dated to around 3000 BC (Period IVC). The material culture of Period IVC is not...

The Kenchreai Cemetery Project: Death-Ritual, Landscape and Society in Roman to Early Byzantine Greece

Dibsi Faraj, Life of a Citadel on the Euphrates. Results of a Rescue Excavation from the Tabqa Dam Project.

This publication project, directed by Dr. Anna Leone, will produce the digitalisation of the archive and the final publication of archaeological excavations conducted at Dibsi Faraj (Syria), a Late Roman, Byzantine and early Islamic site on the Euphrates...