Research projects

Alluvial fans as indicators of past climate change in the Levant

Project summary This project reconstructs the past 25,000 years of landscape change in the Eastern...

Published:2021

The Koubba project: The origins of complex societies in north Lebanon

Project summary The project charts the development of society and economy in northern Lebanon from...

Published:2021

Badia epigraphic survey project

Project summary The Badia Epigraphic Survey Project locates, records, and provides precise geographical information for...

Published:2021

Muslim marriages, multiple identities: Syrian and Iraqi refugee women in Jordan

Project summary The project examines how Muslim marriage practices assist Syrian and Iraqi refugee women...

Published:2021

Migration diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean – inter-state politics of population mobility in the Middle East

Project summary This project investigates how migratory flows across national borders have affected, and featured...

Published:2021

Tackling the causes for flight? The changing features and effects of German refugee policy in Jordan

Project summary Building on a critical ethnographic approach to policy-making, the fieldwork for this pilot...

Published:2021

Instruments of imperialism? What transport jars reveal about economy and administration in the earliest world empires

Project summary This project investigates the socio-economic impact of imperial policies on the Phoenician heartland...

Published:2021

Providing the palaeoenvironmental context to the boom and bust of prehistorical Cypriot societies

Project summary The project explores how Cyprus responded to climate change and how these changes...

Published:2021

Coalescence of the displaced: Syrian civil society beyond borders

Project summary This project, part of Tamara Al-Omm's PhD research, aimed at understanding the mechanisms...

Published:2021

Rising from the ashes: Karterouni and the forest heritage of Cyprus

Project summary Taking a new approach to heritage fieldwork, this project aims to address why...

Published:2021

Ottoman Jerusalem Project

Project summary The project aimed at recording as much of the Ottoman architecture in Jerusalem...

Published:2021

Colt Archaeological Expedition

Project summary Between 1933 and 1937, excavations were conducted at Sbeita and Auja el Hafir...

Published:2021

Excavations at Jericho

Project summary Taking place between 1952 and 1958 and directed by Kathleen Kenyon, excavations at...

Published:2021

MaDiH: Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan

Project summary MaDiH (مديح) is a collaborative project between King’s Digital Lab (KDL) at King’s...

Published:2021

Jerash Churches

Project summary Joint project of Yale University and BSAJ, carried out between 1928 - 1930....

Published:2021