Rotary Club Scholarships
The Rotary Club Moriah branch, at Haifa, continued its tradition of awarding excellence scholarships to students of the Department of Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa that are engaged…
The Nineteenth-Century Molyneux’s Boat
Congratulations to M. Bram, N. Iddan, D. Ashkenazi and D. Cvikel, for having their paper "The Nineteenth-Century Molyneux’s Boat: Archaeometallurgical Perspective of its Metal Fastenings", published in "Metallography, Microstructure, and…
Earliest Olive Pickling Factory Found at 6,500-year-old Site Off Israeli Coast
A new study by E. Galili et al. presents the earliest evidence for large-scale table olive production from the mid-7th millennium BP inundated site of Hishuley Carmel on the northern Mediterranean…
A Journey to the Depth of the Sea
Read about sunken ships, coral reefs, and the amazing world found underwater in a piece by Moshe Gilad of Haaretz which was prepared with the assistance of Dr. Deborah Cvikel…
The Dung Boats of Memphis
A new paper by Dr. Emmanuel Nantet in "Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete" titled "The Dung Boats of Memphis"The πλοῖον κοπρηγόν was a specific kind of boat that was…
A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean
Tsunami events in antiquity had a profound influence on coastal societies. Six thousand years of historical records and geological data show that tsunamis are a common phenomenon affecting the eastern…
An Anatolian-Style Lead Figurine from the Kabri MB Palace
An Anatolian-Style Lead Figurine from the Kabri MB Palace Excavations during the summer of 2017 in the earlier phases of the courtyard of the palace at Tel Kabri turned up…
Remote excavating during the Covid-19 era
Remote Excavating during the Covid-19 era Researchers and students from RIMS and the Department for Maritime Civilizations recently carried out a successful remote collaboration with colleges from the University of…
Rare masthead from an ancient shipwreck found in northern Israel
Maayan Cohen, a PhD candidate at the department of maritime civilizations at the University of Haifa, and Dr. Deborah Cvikel, a researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies…
Dolphin spotting along the Israeli coast
Kan11 article about dolphin spotting along the Israeli coast conducted by immrac.org featuring the Institute's research fellow Dr. Oz Gofman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21ZJoku8-Ag&feature=youtu.be