May 2024 be so much better than 2023

A new paper titled "'Hippapai!' Horse-Carriers: A Master Ship of Ancient Thalassocracies" was recently published in Klio by Dr. Emmanuel Nantet! Most powerful ancient navies included a type of ship that…

A new book was published recently by Aaron Brody and Michal Artzy titled "Tel Akko Area H: from the Middle Bronze Age to the Crusader Period". In this volume, Aaron Brody…

A special double issue of the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies (JEMAHS), guest edited by Meir Edrey, from the Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies and by Ann…

The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies would like to congratulate David Friesem on his new title of Professor in the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the School of Archaeology…

The Head of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies Prof. Assaf Yasur-Landau, was interviewed in an exposé on the Institute, maritime archaeology, and research today and in the future.…

A new paper, authored by M. Runjajić, Y. Garfinke, M.G. Hasel, A. Yasur-Landau, and D.E. Friesem, and titled " Fire at the Gate of Hazor: A Micro-Geoarchaeological Study of the…

The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies congratulates Prof. Guy Bar-Oz, for winning the ERC highest personal grant achievable, ERC Advanced, for his proposal "Bio-Archaeology of Heritage Trees and Traditional Dryland…

A paper lead by Sara Macke, one of our students at the School of Archaeology and Maritime Civilizations, was just published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Many stone anchors…

Congratulations to Dr. Emmanuel Nantet for winning the highly esteemed ERC Consolidator grant 2022 for his proposal "SHIPs: Ships Harbouring in Ports. Mapping Ancient Harbours Systems"!We wish him all the best…