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 burning," a.k.a....

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 University in collaboration with the Tunisian Institut National du Patrimoine (co-directors Fethi Chelbi...

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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 6th millennium BCE. Unsurprisingly, the...

The Domitian villa, located in the comune of Sabaudia (LT) in Italy is a majestic, long living, roman imperial residence that occupies a peninsula of 46 hectares facing from east the Lake of Paola. This villa, as important and articulated as the Adrian’s one, is a case study of considerable value both from an archaeological and methodological point of view. The first documented excavations at the Villa...

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 France. Situated on the Giens peninsula on the southern Mediterranean coast of France, the excavation soon revealed what seems to be the remains of a large merchantman sunk around 70-45 BCE. Eleven campaigns were then necessary to fully document the extensive remains (35,10 m in length, 9m in width) of this...

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 and the economy and socio-ecology of an ancient city. This particular potential had been used by an interdisciplinary research project, which focused between 1997-2002 on one specific building lot. Works by the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and various partners included the documentation of standing structures and...