Bahra 1 Codes used during earlier surveys: SBH 35, SBH 38 Most interesting finds: – The largest Ubaid-culture settlement on the Arabian Gulf coast – Workshop manufacturing tubular beads from the shells of Conomurex persicus – Rich assemblage of local pottery (so-called Coarse Red Ware) and imported pottery from Mesopotamia – The oldest fragment of […]
Gebelein Inerti Most interesting finds: – Tombs of dignitaries from the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period – The oldest prayers in the temple area known from Egypt – Reliefs in the chapel of Hathor – Rock inscription with the name of Ramesses IV – Prehistoric petroglyphs History of research: Dates of PCMA mission’s […]
Iraqi Kurdistan History of research: – Survey conducted between 2013 and 2017 Directors: Dorota Ławecka Rafał Koliński (director of the UGZAR project) Additional information about the project: The “Newcomers and autochthons. Settlement in the Upper Zab basin in the Late Chalcolithic and Ninevite 5 periods” project is part of the UGZAR concession. The UGZAR work […]
Kadero Most interesting finds: – Neolithic settlement (fragments of ceramic vessels, stone and bone implements, small personal adornments); – Neolithic cemetery: almost 250 burials, including a few richly-furnished graves; – Bones of domesticated animals, remains of plants that were probably cultivated; – Remains of a Meroitic cemetery: relatively poor burials (presumably dating to the first […]
Tell Abu Hafur Most interesting finds: – Relics of domestic architecture from the Early Dynastic period on the main tell and from the Mitanni and Neo-Assyrian periods on the eastern tell – Pottery from different periods History of research: Dates of PCMA research: 1988–1990 Type of research: Salvage excavations Project directors: Maria Krogulska (first season) […]
Tell Amarna Most interesting finds: – Painted fragments of pottery vessels from the Halaf period – Ceramic vessels from the Bronze Age – Terracotta figurines from the Bronze and Iron Ages – Cylindrical seal from the Bronze Age – Oil lamps from the Hellenistic period – Remains of an early Christian church – Floor mosaics […]
Tell Saadiya Tell as-Saadiya, Tell es-Saadiya, Tell el-Saadiya Most interesting finds: – Children’s burials in urns with lids – Painted pottery vessels – A collection of stone tools History of research: Salvage excavations were conducted as part of the Hamrin Dam Salvage Project. Work at the site had been interrupted in 1980 by the outbreak […]
Wadi Khashab Most interesting finds: – complex of human and animal burials surrounded by stone stelae – stone stelae and pavements – separate tumuli History of research: Investigated by the PCMA mission in: 2010–2015 Type of research: Survey, excavations Directors: Piotr Osypiński Co-operating institutions: – Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw – Patrimonium […]