Archaeological research at Iskandarouna Bay and its surroundings- 2023 Dr. Zeina Haddad The historical site of Iskandarouna is located 16 km to the south of Tyre, within the town of Naqoura. It is one of the places that probably bore the name of Alexander the Great from the Hellenistic period, it was said that he […]
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The paleoenvironmental evolution of a Levantine coastal city in the Bronze Age. The case of Tyre (Lebanon). 2023-Ongoing Dr. Francisco Jesús Núñez Calvo The multidisciplinary Lebanese-Spanish-Polish project has been carrying out archaeological excavations in ‘The Acropolis’, located in the southern half of the ancient island, since 2015. This area was previously excavated by Amir M.
Berytus and the sea: Understanding marine resource exploitation and marine ecosystems in Roman Beirut using bioarchaeology- 2023-Ongoing Dr. Canan Çakırlar, Senior Lecturer, Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen Romanization led to fundamental changes in the economy and ecology of the Mediterranean. Most research on the Roman Mediterranean examines agricultural production and animal husbandry, and
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
Batroun, Lebanon – 2017-20 Clement Flaux and Nicolas Carayon Batroun is located 53 km north of Beirut. The coast is characterized by a rocky promontory made of calcareous sandstones (coastal aeolianite locally known as ramleh), separating two coves on its northern and southern sides. The ancient city was located above the rocky promontory, the western
CADMOS-S project – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) – 2018 Alexandre Sursock and Milad Fakhri Geophysical Survey off southern Lebanon The CADMOS-S project was one of the first maritime archaeology programmes in Lebanon to use geophysical means of exploration. It was jointly funded, over the last two years (2015-2017), by the Honor Frost
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