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2024 New Grantees announced

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In 2024 the White Levy Program awarded grants totaling over $325,000 to support fourteen new projects dedicated to producing manuscripts on previously unpublished archaeological fieldwork. Funding was awarded to archaeologists working in eleven different...

Sponsored Projects

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List of projects on terminated fieldwork sponsored by the White Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

1923-25 Palestine Exploration Fund Excavations at the City of David, Jerusalem, Israel

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PUBLISHED 2024. Please visit the publication's webpage. The project will present for the first time all the information from the P.E.F. excavation of this critical area of Jerusalem. The resulting publication will make a significant contribution to the...

Sponsored Projects 1997-2019

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Tell Umm el-Marra, Syria, Early Bronze Age Results: Final Excavation Report

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PUBLISHED 2024. Please view the publication's webpage. Excavations at Umm el-Marra (ancient Tuba?) in the Jabbul plain east of Aleppo (36° 08' North, 37°41' East), conducted by the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam 1994-2010, have...

The Australian Centre for Egyptology (Macquarie University) Teti Cemetery Project at Saqqara

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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...

Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus

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PUBLISHED 2024. Please visit the publication's webpage. The Greco-Roman port-city of Kourion lies on a plateau overlooking the south coast of Cyprus, just west of Akrotiri Peninsula (Lat. 34.667; Long. 32.883). One of its most striking features is the...

The necropolis of the Third Dynasty at Bet Khallaf (Egypt). New Material and Analysis

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Bet Khallaf is a Third Egyptian Dynasty (2686-2613 BC ca.) necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at 26° 19’ North, 31° 47’ East in the desert zone bordering on the crop cultivations, 20 km north of Abydos necropolis (Umm el-Qa’ab), site of the...

Open Research in Failaka: processing archives of the French Mission in Kuwait (1983- 2009) for open access dissemination and final publication of Al-Qusur monastery excavations (1988-1989 & 2007-2009)

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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...

Unearthing Qurayyah I. Report on the 2015-2019 Excavation Seasons

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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...

Rewriting the History and Archaeology of Egypt’s Eastern Desert: Wadi el-Hudi Volume 1

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A new scholarly volume, Survey of Wadi el-Hudi, Volume 1 , authored by Kate Liszka (recipient of this White Levy Program grant), Meredith Brand , Bryan Kraemer and their team, will soon offer the first modern look into the rich and complex archaeological...

Reassessment of the UCLA excavations 1983-1984 at the Melita Esplanade in Rabat (Malta)

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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...