The Ma'agan Mikhael Shipwreck, excavated by Prof. D. Cvikel, was recently featured on Reuters! The shipwreck, dated to the 7th or 8th century CE, is evidence that trade persisted with the…

A new paper by E. Nantet, M. Berenguel, and D. Katz titled "Repositioning the Sea on the Great Altar of Pergamon: A Demonstration of Hellenistic Boat Construction on the Telephos…

Congratulations to Dr. David Friesem for winning the University of Haifa Rector's Award for Outstanding Young Researchers! We wish you many more fruitful years! 

The Ma’agan Michael B Shipwreck, excavated by Prof. D. Cvikel was recently featured in Haartez. Read more here Photo by A. Yurman

We are pleased to invite you to join us on Apr. 7th at 17:00 (Haifa time) to an online workshop on Phoenician Religion and Cult across the Mediterranean!  The workshop…

The paper on Incised Late Bronze Age lead ingots from the southern anchorage of Caesarea, authored by N. Yahalom-Mack, D.M. Finn, Y. Erel, O. Tirosh, E. Galili, and A. Yasur-Landau,  recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, has made the…

A new paper, authored by N. Yahalom-Mack, D.M. Finn, Y. Erel, O. Tirosh, E. Galili, and A. Yasur-Landau, and titled "Incised Late Bronze Age lead ingots from the southern anchorage…

A new paper titled "Rethinking the Iron Age Carmel Coast: A Coastal and Maritime Perspective", authored by Ehud Arkin Shalev, Ehud Galili, Paula Waiman-Barak and Assaf Yasur-Landau, was recently published in the Israel…

The Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies congratulates our very own Hassan Khalilieh on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor!