Sponsored Projects 1997-2019

Ancient Farmers of the Sinjar Plain

The grant is intended to enable the final publication of the Neolithic sites of Tell Magzalia, Tell Sotto and Kültepe (Iraq) which will be in the form of a co-edited book by Nikolaï O. Bader, Olivier Aurenche and the grantee, Marie Le Mière, entitled...

Chogha Mish Volume II: The Development of a Prehistoric Regional Center in Lowland Susiana, Southwestern Iran: Final Report on the Last Six Seasons of Excavation, 1972-1978

PUBLISHED 2008. Please visit the publication's webpage. This is the final report on the eleven seasons of excavations at Chogha Mish. In addition to the materials and records from Chogha Mish, the director of this publication project, Dr. Abbas Alizadeh...

Ancient Settlement Systems and Cultures in the Ram Hormuz Plain, Southwestern Iran: Excavations at Tall-e Geser and Regional Survey of the Ram Hormuz Area

PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage . The significance of the proposed publication lies in the rare uninterrupted archaeological sequence at Tall-e Ghazir that covers the span of the crucial 5th and 4th millennia when state...

The Chalcolithic Hotnitsa Tell (1956-1959 Excavations)

The village of Hotnitsa is part of Veliko Tarnovo municipality in the central part of Northern Bulgaria. It is situated some 14 km northeast from the municipal center. The vicinity of the village is a kind of archaeological phenomenon. More than 70...

The Cairo University-Brown University Expedition to the Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza, Egypt

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. The aim of the grant, awarded to Dr. Edward Brovarski, is to prepare the publication of the Old Kingdom tombs excavated by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr in the 1950s and early 1960s in the cemetery...

Final Report on the 1991-94 Excavations at Tell esh-Shuna North, Jordan

Many of these issues are being addressed through the analysis of evidence from excavations at Tell esh-Shuna in the north Jordan Valley undertaken 1991-94. The site has revealed a stratigraphic sequence which allows us to chart changes in the subsistence...

Bir Massouda Excavations : Carthage - Dermech

This grant will be used to publish the final reports from rescue excavations at the Phoenician-Punic site of Carthage that took place between 2000 and 2005 under the direction of the grant recipient, first with the University of Amsterdam, then Ghent...

Ceramic Finds: Typological and Technological Studies of the Pottery Remains from Tell Hesban and Vicinity

PUBLISHED 2012. Please visit the publication's webpage. The publication of the Hisban pottery for the 1968 to 1976 seasons was directed by Gloria London and Larry Herr. The site included 21 strata from the Iron I period to Modern times, with heavy...

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

This grant will support 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, between 1972 and 1974 by the late Richard...

The Western Nile Delta: The American Survey in the Region of Naukratis and Kom Firin

This grant will be for the publication of the American regional survey in the south-western Nile Delta, conducted between 1977 and 1983 by W.D.E. Coulson, with A. Leonard Jr. and N. Wilkie, which, apart from fieldwork at Naukratis itself, was never...

Secondary Pits Associated with the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. This project will produce a report on the excavation of the secondary pits associated with the tomb of Marquis Yi, ruler of the state of Zeng, who died in 433 BCE. The tomb is located at Suizhou in...

The Prehistoric Tumuli of Marathon, Greece

The Prehistoric Tumuli of Marathon Project was submitted in 2013 to the Athens Archaeological Society by a team of researchers under the joint direction of Prof. Maria Pantelidou Gofa (University of Athens), Prof. Gilles Touchais (Université Paris 1, UMR...

The Hearst Expedition Excavations at Deir el-Ballas

The ancient town site of Deir el-Ballas is located on the west bank of the Nile in northern Upper Egypt in the neighborhood of the modern town known as Dayr Al Gharbi ( 26° 3" N - 32° 45" E.) about 30 km. north of Western Thebes. Circumscribed by a bay in...

The Hearst Expedition Excavations at Deir el-Ballas

Necropoleis at Palaepaphos from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic Period Vol II

PUBLISHED 2016. Please visit the publication's webpage. The most important cemetery of Kouklia/ancient Palaepaphos during the Cypro-Geometric period (c. 1050 - 750 B.C.) is the Skales cemetery southeast of the settlement site. A systematic excavation of...

Necropoleis at Palaepaphos from the End of the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic Period

PUBLISHED 2014. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant will be for the preparation of archaeological material for publication; it was excavated by the Cyprus Department of Antiquities in the area of Palaepaphos, an ancient kingdom in the south...

Excavations at Kition VI: The Phoenician and Later Levels

PUBLISHED 2004. Please visit the publication's webpage. The Phoenician period cemetery of Kition is no doubt the most extensively investigated necropolis of Cyprus in spite of the fact that very little is published thus far. The Archaic and Classical...

Ceramiques Myceniennes: Ras Shamra-Ougarit XIII

PUBLISHED 2000. Please visit the publication's webpage. Claude F.-A. Schaeffer brought to France more than four hundred Mycenaean vases and sherds uncovered during his excavations at the Late Bronze Age sites of Ras Shamra and Minet el Beida. Only about...

North Sinai Archaeological Project, Tell el-Borg excavations

PUBLISHED 2019. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant will support the costs of preparing the second volume of the final report of the excavations at Tell el-Borg, which took place between 1999 and 2008. Tell el-Borg is an crucial military...

Tell Afis 3. Acropolis and Lower Town Fortifications. From Late Chalcolithic Period to Iron Age III (4000 – 600 BC)

PUBLISHED 2022. Please visit the publication's website. Tell Afis is located at the southern limit of the Jazr plain in the Muhafazeh of Idlib. In 1903 it was visited by the French consul in Alep, H. Poignon, who uncovered the broken stele of the king...