The Roman colony of Mariana was founded at the beginning of the first century BC, by Marius. The importance of the site was recognized by 19th century local historians and ...read more
Archaeological survey to study the diachronological organization of ritual and funerary monuments. The BOF research project 2003-2004, a cooperation between Ghent University and Gorno-Altaisk State University and funded by the ...read more
Thousands of Early Iron Age burial mounds in Altay are located in the peripheral permafrost zone, causing an exceptional archaeological preservation. The project “Preservation of the Frozen Tombs of the ...read more
The main area of research of the Roman Mediterranean Archaeology unit (dir. Prof. Frank Vermeulen), namely central Adriatic Italy, is central to this overarching research on the impact on the ...read more
During the Roman period, the northern parts of the Belgian provinces of East- and West-Flanders together with the Dutch province of Zeeland formed the northern parts of the so called ...read more
In 2000, a multi-disciplinary team under the direction of Prof. Frank Vermeulen, started a very intensive survey of an Adriatic valley. Denominated 'Potenza Valley Survey' (PVS), this research project aims ...read more
The archaeological and historical identification of the site as the emplacement of the Roman town of Ammaia dates from the mid 1930s. Systematic archaeological digs started only in 1994 and ...read more
The site of Tell Tweini is located on the southern bank of the River Rumeilah in the Syrian coastal plain, approximately 1,5 km east of modern-day Jebleh and 40 km ...read more
Exchange project for the promotion of education: valorisation of natural and cultural heritage in Altay. A small survey was performed in the Uymont Steppe (close to Ust-Koksa) in ...read more
Scattered across the Altay Mountains are thousands of surface structures – funerary monuments, ritual structures and petroglyphs – of different, mainly nomadic civilisations, from the Eneolithic to the Ethnographic period ...read more