The Opening of the Blue House Beirut On 30th March 2023, trustees of the Honor Frost Foundation, the HFF Lebanon team and representatives from ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux Arts), as well as the Directorate General of Antiquities, Beirut Heritage Initiative and many other guests gathered to celebrate the opening of the Blue House. On …
5th HFF Policy Forum “Archaeology and Marine Development in the eastern Mediterranean” The Fifth HFF Policy Forum “Archaeology and Marine Development in the eastern Mediterranean” was successfully organized at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, on 27 April 2023. The meeting was organized in hybrid format to allow some participants and speakers, as well as HFF Trustees …
Congratulations Ziad Morsy! The Foundation is delighted to congratulate Ziad Morsy on the successful defence of his PhD thesis on Nile boats and riverine traditional communities in Egypt! Ziad began his PhD research in 2016 and has contributed to projects in both CMA at the University of Southampton and the CMAUCH at the University of …
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MAGS 2023 The Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) was first established in 2018 to allow young researchers at the Master, PhD, and early post-doctoral stages to engage with conference attendance and paper presentation in front of an audience composed of peers and like-minded scholars. The Steering and Organising Committees are aware of and sensitive to the fact …
HFF PhD Scholar Maria Michael graduates from the University of Southampton Congratulations Maria on your graduation! Maria started her PhD with a scholarship from the Foundation in January 2018 at the University of Southampton, under the supervision of Dr. Julian Whitewright, Dr. Anna Collar, and Dr. Jaco Weinstock. Her PhD thesis entitled “To fish or …
HFF MA Scholar Elissa Nader graduates from the University of Southampton Congratulations to Elissa who has graduated from her Master’s at the University of Southampton! I have recently graduated from my MA at the University of Southampton, supported by the HFF. Over the last year, I have developed many skills that took my academic journey …
Dr Ross Iain Thomas 7th May 1978 – 14th November 2022 It is with much sadness that we share the news of the tragic passing of our dear friend and colleague, Dr Ross Iain Thomas who died unexpectedly on 14th November 2022 aged 44, following surgery. Ross completed his doctorate at the University of Southampton …
WELL WELL WELL – CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY Listen to our special podcast episode about this here December 12, 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of a pivotal moment in underwater archaeology. On a winter evening in December 1952, pioneering underwater archaeologist Honor Frost (1917- 2010) made her first dive, not on the Mediterranean …
This Seamless Sea Casebook arose from a Policy Forum held in 2016, organised by the Honor Frost Foundation Steering Committee on Underwater Cultural Heritage.
Congratulations to HFF Scholar Achilleas Iasonos on his graduation In 2019 Achilleas Iasonos began his PhD at Oxford University, with a scholarship from the Foundation. Achileas’ DPhil project ‘Deep-Sea Archaeology in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Cyprus’ has demonstrated that it is possible to conduct research, and hence add new and unpublished information regarding …
