Climate change poses one of the most urgent but under-recognised threats to heritage in the MENA region, where delicate monuments and traditions are increasingly vulnerable to shifting climates and extreme weat
Hidden amid the scenic landscape of Wadi Jerash, Jordan, are the remains of a once-thriving system of medieval watermills and aqueducts, vital to the agricultural economy following the 8th-century earthquake th
Dr. Nicolò Pini’s archaeological project focuses on the fortified settlement of Terravecchia di Caltavuturo in northern Sicily, a site which provides a unique lens into rural life between the Byzantine and I
Hamza Benattia was awarded the Barakat Postgraduate and Early Career Award to study the archaeological site of Kach Kouch in Morocco. The early Muslim cemetery here offers a window into the lives of the people
This project, led by Professor Andrew Peterson, worked to survey, excavate, and record an important Ottoman fortress in Iraqi Kurdistan. The project carried out a detailed architectural survey with selective ex
What goes on in the afterlife of a Roman city? Rather than Pluto and Cerberus, the city of Caesarea Maritima in Israel had a lively hereafter. Before this project, its archaeologiy showed a splendid array of Ro
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge is home to 15 casts of unique importance: they are casts of the original decoration at the remarkable and world-famous Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain, the city-fortress of
This project worked to establish what needed to be done to safeguard the historic buildings of Girga in Egypt. Girga was an important site in the medieval period; when the Sinai became too dangerous due to Crus
A startling find appeared under the Cultural Heritage Enrichment Centre in the old city of Nablus. While cleaning oil wells for storing olive oil used to make soap as an activity in the Centre upstairs, which u
The site of Bazhera, near the Zagros Mountains, is an austere-looking building which was once a key station in the vast communication network during the Ottoman rule of the region. This project worked to survey
The historic cemeteries of Cairo face unprecedented threats due to urban expansion, lack of awareness, and deliberate destruction. Since 2023 a collaborative project by a number of Cairo’s leading academi
This is a collaborative pilot project at medieval-Islamic port-city of Zaylac. Zaylac, located on the Gulf of Aden in present-day Somaliland, was one of the most significant trading ports on the Somali coast fo
Khan Marjan is a fourteenth century caravanserai in the heart of historic Baghdad. It has survived in comparatively good condition, and was in use right up to the late 1980s – as a warehouse, as a museum
This project focuses on the ribats (coastal forts) which characterised the province of Ifrīqiya’s coast (today Tunisia) by the late 9th century. It aims to shed new light on how the Mediterranean economy
Historical graveyards are significant cultural and historical assets that offer invaluable insights into past societies. In Kashmir, the practices surrounding Muslim funerary rites solidified with the arrival o
