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Archaeology2021-11-24T11:57:19+00:00

Archaeology

A selection of reports on the archaeology projects we have supported and funded in the field of Islamic Art, Heritage and Culture since we were founded in 1987

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  • An Archaeological Study of the Impact of Islam on Domestic Architecture of Surame, Nigeria

    The concern of this research is to reconstruct the inward orientation of space within the domestic architecture of Surame. The traditional domestic and by extension, the community environments are some of the important archaeological material manifestations of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Between January 7-February 3, 2022, this author conducted excavation at Surame, Nigeria funded by the Barakat Trust. The excavation focused on a spot (N 13º 05’21.20’’ E 04º 54’31.91’’ and about 291m above sea level) where pots and pottery pavement from an earlier excavated trench as part of a PhD, extended into both northern, western and eastern walls. [...]

The excavation of the Islamic historical core of Dumat al-Jandal (ad-Dira’ district)

BRIEF FINAL REPORT season 2021 Introduction The project, as part of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Saudi Arabia (season 2021), took place from 10/17/2021 to 11/19/2021, proceeding with both the archaeological research and excavation work and the restoration work for the immediate consolidation of the structures excavated inside the Dūmat [...]

Documenting Historic Commercial Buildings in Bulaq – Cairo

As a first stage towards preserving a valuable neighbourhood of historic Cairo, a team of four art historians and two conservation architects will survey and assess the conservation state of historic commercial buildings in the area of Bulaq, Cairo, the city's historic river port. Bulaq is a largely overlooked quarter [...]

Creswell’s Cairo photographs: a project to enhance the Creswell photographic archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

By |January 12th, 2016|Categories: Archaeology, Project Reports|

Grantee:  Omniya Abdel Barr Date: 2016 The Barakat Trust funded [...]

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