NAS Online Course – Introduction to QGIS The Foundation awarded 17 bursaries to attend the NAS online introductory courses to QGIS in maritime archaeology, held in January and March 2022. These online introductory courses provided an overview of features in QGIS that are particularly useful in maritime archaeology. QGIS is a freely available GIS software […]
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Third International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 3) Three bursaries were awarded to scholars and early career researchers to present their work at the third International Congress on Archaeological Sciences in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (ICAS-EMME 3), held in Cyprus at the Cyprus Institute,
16th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology The Foundation funded nine students and early career researchers to both attend the ISBSA in person and online. The 16th ISBSA was held from the 27th September to the 1st October 2021 in Zadar, Croatia. The event was organized by the University of Zadar, the International Centre
Bursary to attend the NAS Conservation Course The Nautical Archaeology Society are running a conservation course, which will consist of an online theory session on the 17th of September, and a practical session at Fort Cumberland in the UK on the 1st October. The Foundation are offering to fund places on either just the online
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Women in Maritime Archaeology Lucy Semaan, who leads our HFF Lebanon team was recently invited to host a special roundtable discussion as part of the University of Helsinki’s Global Conversations in Maritime Archaeology, with Katerina Velentza. The focus of this one was Women in Maritime Archaeology. Katerina and Lucy spoke to Clara Fuquen, Crystal El
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Punic Ship Conservation Work Following the successful workshop held at the Museo archeologico Lilybaeum Baglio Anselmi in October 2021, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Punic Ship, and also bought together specialists to discuss the future of the ship and its conservation, Pat Tanner (University of Southampton, Centre for Maritime Archeology)
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The Under the Mediterranean II Conference has been postponed. Due to ongoing covid restrictions the organisers have decided to postpone the conference to 2nd – 6th November 2022. All bursary recipients will have received an email from us, but if you haven’t had it or have any questions please get in touch. For information about
Further Investigation of Marine Archaeology Heritage in known ancient harbours of the North Cyprus Coast – ongoing Dr Muge Sevketoglu This project will further define threatened marine archaeology on the North Cypriot coastline and test the rapid protection system through the Akanthou project (Sevketoglu and Hanson, 2017) and Centre for Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and Conservation,
El Max Rescue Project Rawda Abdelhady IntroductionThe El-Max district to the West of Alexandria, Egypt, is one of the last fishing communities in Alexandria. The significance of this region in terms of its incumbent maritime traditions, buildings, features and objects, is indisputable, the issue here is how to best safeguard this unique area for future
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Hassan Hajjali – Training Bursary – Sarepta Site Cleaning My MA dissertation in Archaeology at the Lebanese University considers the site of Sarepta and its preservation through virtual recording as a sustainable safeguarding method towards a risk management plan. I chose to focus on sounding X that was excavated by the University of Pennsylvania, which
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