Levant - Northern

From 1984 to 2011, the Swiss Archaeological Mission excavated Tall al-Hamidiya in Northeast Syria. The Late Bronze Age acropolis, with its monumental structures, including the Southwest Palace (approx. 14,500 m²) and the Central Palace (approx. 38,500 m²)...

The city of Ebla, located in northern Syria, has been a focal point of archaeological research for decades. Excavations spanning from 1964 to 2010 uncovered significant insights into its historical narrative, especially during the Early and Middle Bronze...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. More than three hundred objects and fragments of objects found at Ras Shamra and Minet el-Beida by C.F.A. Schaeffer during the first years of his excavations are stored in the showcases and reserves...

Located in North Syria, on the left bank of the Euphrates river (36° 47’ 14’’ North, 38° 02’ 09’’ East), Tell Shiukh Fawqâni is one of the key-sites for investigating the still poorly known period marked by the collapse of the Hittite Empire and by the...

PUBLISHED 2023. Please visit the publication's webpage. This grant is intended for the publication of the final report, in three volumes, of the excavations directed by Paul Courbin from 1971 to 1984 at the site of Ras el-Bassit, which lies along the...

The grant will support the publication program of the final report on the excavations of the citadel at Tilmen Höyük, a capital city of the Middle Bronze Age Northern Levant (Gaziantep province, South-Eastern Turkey). The excavations of the Turco-Italian...

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...

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 mound of Hama is located in the Middle Orontes Valley. The Danish excavation at Hama, carried out from 1931 to 1938, was one of the earliest archaeological projects undertaken in Inland Western Syria. Since then, the material from Hama has played an...

Amrith (ancient Marathos) is a Late Phoenician-Hellenistic archaeological site located on the Syrian coastal region/Tartous Governorate. The site occupies a large flat area of about approx. 7 km in a north-south axis and its width varies between 1 and 2...