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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. [...]

Archaeological landscape survey at Khirbat al-Mafjar

The Barakat Trust endowed Mahmoud Hawari with a grant to help him with his research project on Hisham's palace located in the West Bank. The overall aim of the Khirbat al-Mafjar is to enhance the understanding of the 8th century Umayyad Hisham's Palace within the context of its cultural and [...]

  • The Islamic Bayda Project

Islamic Baydha Archaeological Excavation Video

    Enjoy the video of the Islamic Baydha Archaeological Excavation Project in Petra, Jordan supported by The Barakat Trust. The Islamic Bayda Project includes a training programme in archaeological fieldwork, designed for Jordanian and international trainees.

Digitising the K.A.C Creswell’s International Collections

Between 2018 and 2019 the Barakat Trust funded Omniya Abdel Barr's very ambitious project to enhance the Creswell archives in six International collections. K.A.C Creswell's works are held by at least five institutions and in private collections. And together they constitute an invaluable The project provided digitisation, cataloguing and extensive [...]

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