Landscape history and chronology of a Roman and Byzantine port infrastructure of Marea in the Region of Mareotis – 2020 Tomasz Derda Marea is situated on the south coast of Lake Mariout around 45 km away from Alexandria. Occupying around 15 ha, it is one of the largest settlements from the Byzantine period located in […]
Judith Gatt – 2019-2021 – University of Aix-Marseille MA Scholar. Having been accepted in 2019 in the Master of Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (MoMArch) of Aix-Marseille with the support of the Honor Frost foundation, I pursued my studies in Maritime archaeology. The two-year programme was completed with success in June 2021. Throughout the two years
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Marine exploitation, seafaring and cultural diffusion in Tabarja Wata Slam 100 (TWS 100), a Neolithic site on the Lebanese coast – ongoing Corine Yazbeck The Neolithic of Lebanon is poorly known when compared to adjacent countries; most recorded sites consist of find-spots where no stratigraphy was recorded. Few sites have been excavated and these are
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Byblos & the Sea, Lebanon – ongoing Martine Francis and Nicola Grimal Byblos & the Sea is a multidisciplinary research project on the coastal and maritime area of Byblos co-directed by Martine Francis (affiliated researcher at the Collège de France) and Nicolas Grimal (Prof. at the Collège de France), in collaboration with the Directorate General
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El Kharayeb – Adloun, Lebanon – ongoing Ida Oggiano, Wissam Khalil and the HFF Lebanon Team The archaeological mission in the localities of Kharayeb and Adloun located on the South-Lebanon coast is a joint Lebanese and Italian multidisciplinary mission directed by both Ida Oggiano from the Institute for Ancient Mediterranean Studies – Italian National Research
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Sidon, Lebanon George Papatheodorou 2017-18 Claude Doumet-Serhal 2022-24 George Papatheodorou 2017-18 1966-1967 Sidon’s survey (Copyright Honor Frost Archive) In the 1960’s Honor carried out underwater surveys off the coast of Sidon as development threatened the offshore island harbour, her work was published in 1973 in the IJNA and in the NMN in 2000. Studies of this site is being
Tyre, Lebanon – ongoing In 1966, Honor Frost began diving in Tyre, on the southern coast of Lebanon, in order to investigate “some of the puzzling areas mentioned by Renan and Poidebard and to assess whether by using modern methods, it would be possible to add to Poidebard’s picture of this site” (Frost 1972: 109). She
The Lady of Anchors Lauren Tidbury The Foundation has recently awarded a number of bursaries for students and researchers from the HFF region to attend the NAS online course: Anchor Recording using the Big Anchor Project Online Database. Honor Frost became well known in the maritime archaeological community as the ‘Lady of Anchors’ so this
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Update on the controlled destruction of Agios Spyridon A team from the Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory (MARELab) of the University of Cyprus has completed the next phase of the Agios Spyridon project which included the controlled dismantling and in situ recording of the vessel. The wooden trawler was built in 1950 and withdrawn in 2004,
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Bursary to attend the NAS online course: Anchor Recording using the Big Anchor Project Online Database The Foundation is working with the Nautical Archaeology Society to fund up to ten students or researchers from the HFF region (Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt and Syria) to attend the NAS online course on the 27th June 2020. Honor Frost
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