The team hosted a workshop within this year’s American School of Oriental Research Conference at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston. The core team of Prof. Bietak, Silvia Prell, Anna-Latifa Mourad and Nina Maaranen was joined by other researchers and their contributions, namely Christine Lilyquist (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Aleksandra Ksiezak (University of Toronto), Ezra […]
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Finally our long awaited second person joined the Bournemouth University (BU) team. Welcome on board of the Hyksos vessel, Christina! She gained her PhD at the University of Otago, NZ under the supervision of Prof. Hallie Buckley/Dr. Rebecca Kinaston and a MSc in Paleopathology at Durham University, UK. Besides working as a research assistant, she […]
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The youngest member to join the core team was an Austrian National, Dr. Elisa Priglinger. She studied at the University of Vienna, Egyptology and Classical Archaeology. Alongside her studies, she worked on various excavation sites in Austria, Egypt and Israel and utilised her field experience also with some important archiving work later on. In 2014, […]
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This was a truly amazing announcement and honour for Prof. Bietak, to be listed amongst names such as George Washington, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein and become a member of such an historic institution. We are very proud of you! Such events are always an opportunity to network and meet like […]
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Dr. Mourad, an Australian National, had the longest journey to join the team! She studied and also taught at the Macquarie University (Australia), where she gained a PhD in Ancient History, under Prof. Naguib Kanawati. Title: ‘Rise of the Hyksos. Egypt and the Levant from the Middle Kingdom to the Early Second Intermediate Period’ and […]
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Silvia Gomez-Senovilla, a Spanish National, started her post at the same time as Ms Vilain did. She spent a few years in the UK where she studied Egyptology at the University College in London. Besides that she gained a Certificate in Advanced Studies – Egyptian Archaeology at University Autonoma of Madrid (Spain) and a MA […]
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Dr. Vilain’s areas of Expertise are connections between Cyprus and the Northern Levant in the MBA and LBA; Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C; Ceramic production, technology and circulation; Circulation of goods and people in the Second Millennium B.C.; Cultural and artistic influences in ancient Eastern Mediterranean societies. She acquired her […]
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We are happy to announce that Dr. Ezra Marcus will support the team, and especially the RT6 Postdoc with his area of expertise. He will give a comprehensive in-depth study/analysis of the available source material about the trade of the MB along the Levantine coast. This will also mean that his research will give indicators […]
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Prof. Schutkowski from the Bournemouth University has announced that Nina Maaranen starts as the PhD candidate on RT7 within his area of expertise. Nina, a Finnish National, begins her 3-year assignment in autumn term and has already very energetically planned the forthcoming months. Full with various meetings, conferences and visits to Vienna, Italy and Spain […]
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The annual ASOR (the American School of Oriental Research) Conference was held in a resort hotel in San Antonio, where Prof. Bietak gave two presentations (one in the Workshop Exodus Sojourn and Exodus from Egyptological Perspective and the other in the Chronology of Middle Bronze Age in the Levant – Tell el-Dab‘a and Chronology). Both […]
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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 668640).
