Mediterranean

Located roughly 60 km from the Ionian coast of Sicily, Morgantina (37.4310° N, 14.4791° E) was an inland settlement of moderate size and proportionately modest importance when it came to broader geopolitical events unfolding in the western Mediterranean...

The Roman villa of Piantarella, located on the southern tip of Corsica overlooking the Strait of Bonifacio, is one of the largest and most remarkable residential complexes known on the island. Covering more than 3,000 m², the site is organized around a...

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Melite: UCLA Excavations 1983-1984 at the Melita Esplanade in Rabat (Malta)," aims to comprehensively reassess the unpublished archaeological excavations conducted by UCLA in the early 1980s.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...

This publication project, directed by Dr. Brien Garnand, will publish all field diaries and images from the Kelsey excavations as part of the final report of the ASOR Punic Project excavations at the Carthaginian tophet (or tofet, literally "place of...

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...

PUBLISHED 2020. Please visit the publication's webpage. The Maltese Archipelago (and its deep history) is located at a significant juncture. These islands, situated between the northern and southern shorelines of the Mediterranean, were first inhabited in...

The Madrague de Giens wreck is one of the major milestones of nautical archaeology. For ten years (from 1972 to 1982) a team of maritime archaeologists began what constituted the first large scale, truly scientific, underwater excavation carried out in...

Published 2025. Please also view the publication's webpage Underwater archaeology in Israel began in 1960 and, already then, traces of submerged settlements were discovered. The first research took place in 1969, when the Neve-Yam site was exposed by a...