During the last two decades, large scale infrastructure works along the Lower Scheldt river, in particular in the Waasland Scheldt polders (NW-Belgium), have revealed deeply buried and well preserved prehistoric ...read more
This research project is a joined effort of the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren and Ghent University, committed to mapping human occupation and land use from the Late Iron Age to ...read more
This research focuses on the typology, function and provenance determination of the grinding stones used in Thorikos from the Bronze Age to Early Hellenistic times. This ancient settlement and mining ...read more
The late-5th to 3rd millennium BC saw complex dynamics in nomadic and settled lifestyles in the semi-arid and arid steppe regions of Syria and Jordan, when large, often fortified cities emerged ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more
The Geotechnics and archaeological prospection project (IWT n° 150265 in cooperation with Geosonda bvba) aims at integrating geotechnical investigation methods such as cone penetration testing and mechanical core sampling in ...read more
The site was explored at previous occasions: by P. Dikaios in 1952, by V. Karageorghis in 1981-1982 and, more recently, in 2010-2013, by V. Karageorghis and A. Kanta. Since 2014, ...read more
Research in the Al-Ghat desert region, located in the Alhamada valley northwest of Riyadh, was inspired by the Abdulrahman Al-Sudairy Foundation and His Excellency Marc Vinck, the former Belgian ambassador ...read more
Artefacts from the Ancient Near East have an extensive shape variation, and are above all, worked out extremely detailed, among others, just think of cuneiform tablets or seal impressions. Normal ...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