We are privileged to announce that the MarEA project has been awarded a Cultural Protection Fund grant for our project Developing Capacities in Marine Cultural Heritage Management and Protection. Partnering with the Palestine Exploration Fund, the Alexandria Centre of Maritime Archaeology, Benghazi University and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and …
As a project focused on endangered (maritime) cultural heritage, the MarEA team mourns the tragic loss of Palestinian colleagues who have actively engaged in the safeguarding and documentation of this heritage. We deplore the continued violence which has resulted in the displacement of our surviving colleagues, has irreversibly affected local …
Mark Goldstone 1855: the Crimean War rages, Britain and France collaborate, propping up a fading Ottoman Empire to defeat Russia. In Mesopotamia there has been an archaeological outbreak of cooperation. Old European rivals are surprisingly collegiate in their quest to find and excavate the ancient sites of Assyria and Babylon …
