Sponsored Projects 1997-2019

Troia 1987-2012: Grabungen und Forschungen, Volumes II & III

Volume III, in 2 parts, was published in 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site today known as Troy (Turkish Hisarlık, Homer’s Ilios, Greek and Roman Ilion/Ilium) is situated in northwestern Asia Minor, five kilometers from the present...

Tilmen Höyük – The Excavations in the Lower Town

PUBLISHED 2022. Please visit the publication's webpage . The grant will support the publication program of the final report on the excavations of the lower town at Tilmen Höyük, a capital city of the Middle Bronze Age located at the fringes of the North...

Third Millennium Pottery from Tell Ashara-Terqa (TQ18 to TQ29 excavation campaigns)

The grant will support the final publication of the 3rd millennium pottery discovered at Terqa while the French expedition directed by Prof. O. Rouault was excavating the site in the seasons 1987-2009. Terqa (modern-day Tell Ashara) is a medium tell of 8...

Publication of F. Ll. Griffith's Excavations at Sanam Temple, 1912

his grant will fund the much-needed publication of the temple of Sanam in Sudan. Dating to the mid-first millennium BC, the temple was excavated by Francis Llewellyn Griffith in 1912 and is located near the modern town of Karima at the fourth cataract of...

The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir: Cemeteries N2000 and N2500

PUBLISHED 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage. The site of Naga ed-Deir in Egypt was excavated over a period of years in the early twentieth century under the direction of George Reisner. Located on the east bank of the Nile, approximately 156...

The Middle and Late Bronze Age Settlement and Ceramic Production at Tell Barri and Tell Bazi

The main focus of this research is the analysis of the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and Late Bronze Age (LBA) unpublished ceramic assemblages and related archaeological contexts from two case-studies, Tell Barri and Tell Bazi, both located in what is now...

The Italian Archaeological Mission in Yemen. Excavations at Barāqish/Yathill: The Temple of ʿAthtar dhu-Qabḍ and Extramural Areas

PUBLISHED 2021. Please visit the publication's webpage. Ancient Yathill, known today as Barâqish (16° 01’ 06” N - 44° 48’ 16” E) in the Yemeni Jawf, was the second major city in the Kingdom of Ma‛în after the capital Qarnâw. Yathill’s Golden Age began in...

Nippur Digitized: The University of Pennsylvania Excavations at Nippur 1889-1900.

The ancient city of Nippur, 32 o07’ 35” N, 45 o14’ 00” E in present-day Iraq, was founded sometime in the 6 th millennium B.C. and was from the mid-third millennium until about 1800 B.C. the center of Sumerian civilization – the Sumerians themselves...

Ebla Chora Landscape Studies – Trends in Settlement Patterns from the Early Bronze to the Iron Age

The book stands as the final report on surveys and territorial studies carried out in the region of Tell Mardikh/Ebla by the Sapienza University of Rome between 1964 and 2010, under the direction of P. Matthiae. Tell Mardikh (35°47'59.84"N, 36°47'53.10"E)...

Archaeological Excavations at Satu Qala, the Ancient Idu, Fieldwork 2010-2013

Excavations at Satu Qala (Erbil, Iraq), identified with the Assyrian provincial capital Idu, highlighted for the first time the role of the region located south-east of Erbil, as a multicultural borderland both between Assyria and Babylonia and between...

Tbilisi II - The Iron Age of Treligorebi, Treli and Nakubakevi

This grant is to enable publication of the final report of a series of excavations of Iron Age burials within Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. The project is jointly run with Mr. Mikhei Abramishvili, of the Georgian...

Luristan Excavation Documents: Sangtarashan, an Iron Age Site in Pish Kuh

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. Sangtarashan ( 48/33/748E and 33/14/55N) is an archaeological site located in the heart of the Zagros Mountains, in the southern part of Luristan province in western Iran. It was discovered...

The Pre-pottery Neolithic A Site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 and the Dawn of Farming by the Dead Sea

The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) site of Zahrat Adh-'Dhra 2 lies on the barren and deeply dissected Dhra‘ Plain, at the south-east corner of the Dead Sea in Jordan. However, in its heyday (9,200 - 8,300 cal BC) during the early Holocene, the settlement...

The Amulets of the Kerma Culture

Kerma is an archaeological site located in the largest alluvial plain of the northern Sudan, upstream of the Third Cataract in Upper Nubia. G. A. Reisner, director of the Harvard-Boston Expedition, was the first to excavate parts of the site, including...

The French-Turkmen Archaeological Mission in Turkmenistan: The Iron Age Occupation at Ulug Depe

This grant will be for the study and publication of the final report of the excavations led from 2001 to 2012 at Ulug depe by the Turkmen ‐ French Archaeological Mission (MAFTur), directed by O. Lecomte and M. Mamedov (joint project of the French National...

Hagia Triada IV. The Protopalatial Levels (Excavations 1977-2012)

The goal of this project is the full publication in a monograph of the Protopalatial pottery and its related contexts ( 19 th-18 th c. BC; Middle Minoan [=MM] IB-IIB ), as uncovered at the site of Hagia Triada (Crete) by the Italian Archaeological School...

Kition-Bamboula VIII - Les néoria du port de guerre

PUBLISHED 2022. Please view the webpage for the volume HERE. The ancient military harbour of Kition-Bamboula lies at the heart of the modern city of Larnaca, Cyprus (34°92’’ North, 33°63’’ East). Excavations conducted by the French Archaeological Mission...

A Sanctuary and the Necropoleis Excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter at Ancient Idalion

Ancient Idalion was one of the city kingdoms of Iron Age Cyprus, its capital bearing the same name and located in the immediate neighbourhood of the modern village of Dali in the Republic of Cyprus. Especially the rich necropoleis did attract antiquity...

Tell Qarqur publication project

Located in the lower Orontes River Valley of western Syria, Tell Qarqur is a 30-meter tall, 12-hectare mound which was the focus of an American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)-sponsored excavation project from 1983-2010. While the site is best known...

Phlamoudhi-Melissa, Cyprus: Ceramic Production, Adaptation, and Internationalism

Published 2008 Please visit the pubication webpage here: Views from Phlamoudi, Cyprus