Relative Sea-Level changes during Middle and Upper Holocene (6000 BP-today) as determined by an investigation of beachrock formations and their impact on archeological sites along the south coastline of Cyprus. Miltiadis Polidorou Although a great deal of research has been undertaken with respect to the documentation of beachrock formations around the Mediterranean, beachrocks of the […]
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Undiscovered Underwater Worlds Dive & Dig Blog by Lauren Tidbury We are really excited to be launching the first episode of our Dive & Dig podcast, ‘Undiscovered Underwater Worlds’! Almost a year ago the Foundation began to think about how we could engage with a wider audience about underwater cultural heritage utilising the growing popularity
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Launch of the Decade Action: Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP) On June 8, 2021, the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-20 announced their endorsement of ODHN’s Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP) as an official Decade Action. Of the 28 endorsed Decade Actions, it is the only thus far that addresses cultural heritage in the Decade.
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Xavier Le Rudulier – Placement Student 2021 My professional placement with the Honor Frost Foundation consisted in assisting the team with the virtual exhibition of the Marsala Punic ship. The ship was discovered during the 20th century near the coast of Marsala, Sicily. This ship is one of the few Punic ships known so far
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Elizabeth Chase – Placement Student 2021 For my placement I have been helping the Honor Frost Foundation with their project on maritime archaeological archives. Maritime archaeology itself has come a long way in the last 100 years, partly thanks to pioneers such as Honor Frost who have helped to shape the discipline into what it
First Arabic Children’s book on maritime archaeology The team from the Maritime Archaeology Outreach Project have published their first children’s book in Arabic on underwater cultural heritage. “The Adventures of Bahar and Nejma”, was developed in cooperation with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The story is given away to children at the end of MAOP workshops. Through
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MAGS 2021 The fourth Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) was held for the first time by Aix-Marseille University (AMU), France, between the 25th-26th of November 2021, in a hybrid format. MAGS 2021 was organized by HFF scholars from Aix-Marseille University and the MoMArch team (Master of Maritime and Coastal Archaeology – AMU). The symposium was
From phantom town to maritime culturaI landscape and beyond: Dreamer’s Bay Roman-Byzantine ‘port’, the Akrotiri peninsula, Cyprus, and Eastern Mediterranean maritime communications, Simon James, Lucy Blue, Adam Rogers and Vicki Score were awarded an Open Access grant to publish their paper in The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant as an
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Simon James, Lucy Blue, Adam Rogers and Vicki Score were awarded an Open Access grant to publish their paper in The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant as an open access article Abstract At Dreamer’s Bay on the Akrotiri Peninsula of Cyprus lie remains of what has been interpreted as a,
Remembering Patrice Pomey It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of the Foundation’s and Honor’s great friend and colleague, Professor Patrice Pomey. Patrice was a true leader in the field of maritime archaeology, with a particular passion for shipwreck archaeology, boat construction and reconstruction, one of his latest incredible achievements being the
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