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…
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…
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 Researchers and students from RIMS and the Department for Maritime Civilizations recently carried out a successful remote collaboration with colleges from the University of…
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…
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
A new paper was just published in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology by Maayan Cohen and Deborah Cvikel titled: Rigging of the Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck (7th–8th centuries AD):…
Nomads of the Mediterranean: Trade and Contact in the Bronze and Iron Ages: Studies in Honor of Michal Artzy edited by Prof. Ayelet Gilboa and Prof. Assaf Yasur Landau was…
A new paper was recently published in PLOS ONE by Michael Lazar, Eric Cline, Roey Nickelsberg, Ruth Shahack Gross, and Assaf Yasur Landau. The paper deals with the abandonment of the MB palace at…