Dor's ancient anchorages have been recently featured in the news, following an underwater excavation by Prof. Assaf Yasur-Landau and students of the University of Haifa. Read more here, and here. 

A new article published by Dr. Maayan Cohen, RIMS research associate, has been highlighted by Ynet. The article deals with the wrecks found along Israel's coast and can be read…

The fifth and last session of the workshop dedicated to ships and cargoes in the Mediterranean, carried out by the University of Perpignan and the University of Haifa, will take…

In recognition of work to reshape archeological studies, the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology at UC San Diego and the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel are…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…