Category: <span>Red Sea and Gulf of Aden</span>

Joining forces: Integrating Maritime Cultural Heritage into Protected Landscape Management

by MarEA team The coastal zones of the MENA region are subject to high paced development and changes with both anthropogenic and natural causes. The Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) Project rapidly and comprehensively documents and assess threats and damages to the maritime and coastal heritage of the Middle East and …

Archaeology and Climate Change: New Challenges to Fieldwork in the Middle East

(ASOR 2020 Workshop) by Georgia Andreou MarEA has recently presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research. A paper was delivered in Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Presentation and Management session, examining capacity building in maritime archaeology in the Near East. A second paper was part …

Policy Brief- Marine Protected Areas and Cultural Heritage

By Colin Breen and Crystal Safadi Over the past two decades, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have emerged as one of the primary legislative initiatives used to protect the marine environment. Additionally, they are recognised as being an integral management mechanism used to address Climate Change, and can be a driver …

MarEA assessment methods: Applications of Corona imagery

By Harmen Huigens Introduction The MarEA project’s main method to assess maritime archaeological heritage and the threats posed to it is remote sensing – using aerial and satellite imagery to document archaeological sites, their condition, and how they are threatened by natural or anthropogenic processes. Modern high-resolution satellite imagery is …