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Remembering Patrice Pomey It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of the Foundation’s and Honor’s great friend and colleague, Professor Patrice Pomey. Patrice was a true leader in the field of maritime archaeology, with a particular passion for shipwreck archaeology, boat construction and reconstruction, one of his latest incredible achievements being the […]

Remembering George Bass The Foundation was saddened to hear the news that George Bass has passed away. He was a hugely significant figure in the world of maritime archaeology and will be greatly missed. Honor Frost worked with George Bass at Cape Gelidonya in 1960. This project was the first systematic full excavation on the

HFF Post-Doctoral in Maritime Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development The School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Maritime Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development to link the outputs of a GCRF/AHRC-funded research project, Rising from the Depths Network: utilising marine cultural heritage in East Africa

PhD opportunity: Marine heritage and sustainable coastal development in Lebanon The School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for a fully-funded three-year international PhD studentship to work on an Honor Frost Foundation project ‘Maritime Cultural Heritage and sustainable development in the eastern Mediterranean’.  Application deadline: 6th

Surveying Mediterranean shipwrecks to understand ancient Greek maritime networks Professor Mantha Zarmakoupi is the Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research project ‘Tracing Aegean maritime routes: underwater survey around Levitha, Kinaros and Maura (central Aegean Sea)’ received an award from the Honor Frost Foundation

HFF Scholar Naseem Raad successfully completed his PhD Congratulations Naseeem on successfully completing your PhD at the University of Southampton! Naseem Raad is a Lebanese maritime archaeologist focused on maritime trade and economic systems. Naseem’s PhD dissertation, titled ‘Roman Beirut: An Analysis of Economic Systems and Maritime Commercial Networks’, presents a case study to better

Statement of solidarity with Lebanon and support to recover the damaged cultural heritage in Beirut We wish to express our solidarity with the Lebanese people for the tragedy that has struck the city of Beirut. We are saddened by these events and we send our condolences for the loss of lives and our shared concern

Under the Mediterranean Available now for pre-order is the next book in the HFF Publication Series – Under the Mediterranean I, Studies in Maritime Archaeology.  This volume is a collection of 19 articles in three sections reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime landscapes in the Mediterranean region. The shipwrecks

The Lady of Anchors Lauren Tidbury The Foundation has recently awarded a number of bursaries for students and researchers from the HFF region to attend the NAS online course: Anchor Recording using the Big Anchor Project Online Database. Honor Frost became well known in the maritime archaeological community as the ‘Lady of Anchors’ so this

Update on the controlled destruction of Agios Spyridon A team from the Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory (MARELab) of the University of Cyprus has completed the next phase of the Agios Spyridon project which included the controlled dismantling and in situ recording of the vessel. The wooden trawler was built in 1950 and withdrawn in 2004,