Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project – 2015 Dr Justin Leidwanger The Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project is a multi-stage collaborative excavation, survey, and heritage management initiative focusing on the maritime landscape and seaborne communication off the southeast coast of Sicily, Italy. The concentration of accessible sites and their location at the intersection of the eastern and western […]
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Reconstruction and Quantitative Analysis of the Egadi Islands Warship Rams – 2013-2015 Jon Henderson Two grants were awarded by the Foundation for the analysis of the Egadi Islands Warship Rams. More information about the Battle of the Egadi Islands Project can be found here. Analysis of the Battle of the Egadi Islands artifacts is revealing
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The marble routes: Capo Taormina shipwreck project – 2017 Dr Carlo Beltrame Project Summary The shipwreck site of Capo Taormina off the coast of Sicily consists of a cargo of 37 fragments of columns and two blocks of marble previously investigated in 1959 by G. Kapitan who produced a plan and carried out initial analysis
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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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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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This project undertook an assessment survey of Ottoman-period maritime archaeology in Lebanon. It constitutes one section of a larger regional study investigating the coastal archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea from 1500-1850. There is an increasing level of research being undertaken on Bronze Age and Classical period sites across this region but little work
Underwater cultural heritage of Akanthou, Cyprus – 2019 Mehmetcan Soyluoglu Project Summary Thanks to its unique position in the eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was an important landmark and stop-‐over point for ancient mariners. Recent maritime archaeological research, especially from the southern and western regions of Cyprus, have demonstrated the unique position of the island (Leidwanger, 2013;
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Application of enhanced satellite remote sensing techniques to broad-scale maritime cultural heritage research and management in the eastern Mediterranean – 2018 Kieran Westley (School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, Ulster University) Introduction Aerial and satellite remote sensing play a key role in archaeological research and heritage management by enabling rapid cost-effective site prospection, landscape characterization,
DNA from the Wine-Dark Sea – 2017 Lisa Briggs ‘DNA from the Wine-Dark Sea’ sought to assess whether DNA analysis can be effectively used to identify past vessel contents in amphorae and other ceramic vessels recovered from ancient shipwrecks. Prior studies (Hansson and Foley 2008; Foley et al 2012) had claimed that by both destructive
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