Honor Frost Foundation 8th Annual Lecture Excavating a Deep-water shipwreck: Challenges and opportunities Timmy Gambin 2nd December 2019 The event is free but registration is required – click here for details In 2007, during an offshore remote sensing survey aimed at mapping Malta’s Underwater Cultural Heritage, a small anomaly was noted in the sonar data. Since then, […]
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Conserving the Maritime Heritage of Syria Dr Emma Cunliffe Syria’s cultural heritage, which is amongst the most important in the world, has been devastated by the ongoing conflict. Aleppo has been particularly badly affected, and the Aleppo National Museum contains the finds from the multi-national expeditions conducted as part of the salvage excavations for the
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Wadi el Jarf Archaeological Mission – ongoing Prof Pierre Tallet The Wadi el-Jarf project aims to study the various aspects of an Ancient Egyptian harbour on the Red Sea shore (Suez Gulf), built during the reign of Khufu, around 2600 BCE. The site is divided over several locations – a storage area, consisting of galleries cut in the
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Naukratis Dr Ross Thomas The port of Naukratis was the earliest, and for a period the only, Greek port in Egypt. Established in the late 7th century BC as a base for Greek (and Cypriot) traders and the port of the royal Pharaonic city of Sais, it was an important hub for trade and cross-cultural
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Looking through the eyes of an ancient navigator: Exploring the role of local land and seascapes for ancient navigation along the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea – 2019 -2020 Zeeshan Shaikh The Red Sea has been navigated since ancient times, probably earlier. The evidence from the archaeological sites such as Ayn Sukhna, Wadi el-Jarf, Mersa Gawasis,
MAGS 2019 The second Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium was held in Southampton from the 29th to the 31st March 2019 and organised by HFF scholars. The Foundation awarded three bursaries for participants from the eastern Mediterranean to attend and present at the conference. Below is a report from the MAGS committee and a summary of
Benchmarking the Maritime Cultural Heritage of Syria Kieran Westley1, Nicolas Carayon2, Colin Breen1, Lucy Blue2. 1School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Ulster University. 2Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton. Introduction The Honor Frost Foundation’s (HFF) central mission is to advance maritime archaeological research in the eastern Mediterranean region. Significant advances have been made in developing
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3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology – 2019 Jonathan Benjamin The volume, 3D Recording and Interpretation for Maritime Archaeology was successfully completed and published as part of Springer Nature’s Coastal Research Library, launched in April 2019. It contains 14 peer-reviewed chapters by some of the leading experts on the application of spatial technologies for
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Underwater 3D Recording and Modelling Conference The Foundation awarded two bursaries for students from Egypt and Cyprus to attend the 2nd International conference ‘Underwater 3D Recording and Modelling: A tool for modern applications and CH recording’ in May 2019. The event took place at the Cyprus University of Technology and was a collaboration between the
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Dreamer’s Bay, Akrotiri, Cyprus – ongoing Dreamer’s Bay – Simon James – 2017-19 Geoarchaeology – Dr. Ferréol Salomon – 2018 Palaeogeographic reconstruction – Miltiadis Polidorou – 2017 Dreamer’s Bay – Blue & Demesticha – 2022 Dreamer’s Bay- Blue & Michael – 2023 Dreamer’s Bay – Simon James – 2017-19 Scroll down to view project reports
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