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Tell al-Wilayah: the 2002 Iraqi State Board of Antiquities Excavation Season and its Wider Context

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This project will support the publication of a comprehensive monograph on Tell al-Wilayah, a major archaeological site located in Wasit Province in Southeastern Iraq. Tell al-Wilayah was first excavated by Iraqi archaeologists in 1958, and further seasons...

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.

Kerkenes

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PUBLISHED 2022. Please also visit the publication's webpage. The Iron Age capital on Kerkenes Dağ, probably the Pteria of Herodotus, is the largest pre-Hellenistic city on the Anatolian Plateau. Culturally Phrygian, as evinced by inscription, graffiti...

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

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

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

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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...

Excavations at Chopantam and Takhirbai-tepe 1: The Bronze and Iron Ages in the Murghab alluvial fan in Turkmenistan

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In the arid Murghab alluvial fan of south-central Turkmenistan, the Bronze and Iron Age campsite Chopantam (UTM 41N, E426997, N4205644) and the urban center Takhirbai-tepe 1 (UTM 41N, E419755, N4213686) were excavated between 2000 and 2002 and in 2006 for...

The Sanctuary of Mt. Juktas. The Middle Minoan III A-B Complex at Alonaki. Architecture, Pottery, Objects and Character

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Peak sanctuaries constitute an important subject for the understanding of Cretan Protopalatial and Neopalatial religion and social trends. It should be pointed out that although dozens of peak sanctuaries in Crete have been excavated and looted, none has...

Casa dei Postumii VIII 4, 4. 49 and its insula. A Diachronic Study of a Multifunctional Architectural Complex at Pompeii

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The city of Pompeii was sealed in 79 A.D. by the eruption masses of Vesuvius at the Gulf of Naples in southern Italy. Thanks to this catastrophic event, Pompeii offers a unique set of data for the study of the urban fabric, various aspects of daily life...

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

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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...

Artemis in Dyrrhachion

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In the hills northwest of the modern city of Durrës (Albania), the ancient Epidamne-Dyrrhachion, Vangjel Toçi unearthed from May 1970 to October 1971 a huge votive deposit dating from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period: about 1.8 t of figurative...

The Amulets of the Kerma Culture

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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...

Levant - Jerusalem

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