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Publications (Correction): Pioneers Above Jordan
It has just come to our attention that the articleDavid Kennedy 2012 'Pioneers Above Jordan: revealing a prehistoric landscape', Antiquity 86 (332): 474-491.contains an error for the image and caption...
View ArticlePreflight work flow – AAJ May 2016
Our bags are packed, flights booked and we’ll be landing in Amman soon for this our 20th year of flying in Jordan (the first season was way back in 1997)!This May will see a short series of flights,...
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Kh. el-Musheirfeh and MEGA-Jordan
The Jordanian village of Kh. el-Musheirfeh lies about 4 km southwest of the major Nabataean/ Roman/ Early Islamic village/ fort/ town of Umm er-Resas. A further 4 km south is the major archaeological...
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FL20160523 - Clouds in the North
The Aerial Archaeology in Jordan project has just begun its 20th season (after David’s flight in 1997) and it coincides with ICHAJ13- a conference to celebrate and be informed of recent archaeological...
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Flight 20160526 - East into the Badia
The second flight of the 2016 season saw Becc and I heading east to the Azraq area, taking in Qasr Aseikhim, a wonderful and significant multi period hilltop site but which is suffering badly from the...
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FL20160529 - Low clouds over the Kerak Plateau
Aiming for a 7 o’clock take off we left CBRL at 0630, Andrea and I, with the sun rising and some clouds in the west. As we crossed the Hejaz railway en route to Marka we were overtaken by the Squadron...
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AAJ May 2016 - Highs, Lows, and Goodbyes to the Hueys
When we are in Jordan we will squeeze in any opportunity to fly, but this year it was particularly important to do a few flights as we have sadly lost the use of the wonderful beast of helicoptering -...
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Early Turkish Aviation – and Disaster
Following the successful French-organized staged flights from Paris to Cairo in late 1913 (see posts on this Blog of 31 July and 12 and13 August 2015), the Turkish military planned their own display of...
View ArticleSunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds
The British Museum is hosting a superb exhibition about the history, re-discovery and underwater excavation of the two submerged sites of Thonis-Heracleion and Canopus in the delta of the Nile....
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FL201609 - September’s season so far. The Unexpected.
There is no question that the word “unexpected” is the theme of this year’s season, which has been very successful so far. Unexpected length of annual holidays and holidays for parliamentary...
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Publications - 'Kites in Arabia' iBook now free to download
Back in 2014 we launched an iBook that brought together a lot of our research on Kites (see our blog http://www.apaame.org/2014/09/publications-kites-in-arabia-ibook.html).The iBook is now FREE TO...
View ArticleJerash Mausoleum 3D view
David Connolly’s excellent 3D view of one of the large - and seriously endangered, monumental tombs beyond the walls of Roman Gerasa. Photographs are a mixture of his ground photographs and others...
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‘View Counts’ on APAAME’s Flickr Site
Since its establishment in 2009, what Flickr calls ‘View Counts’ have reached 7.153 million. After a slow start the number now rises by about a million every few months and the site has 452...
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Masuh – An Endangered Roman and Umayyad Village
Masuh is a rarity – a large Roman village in the hinterland of Philadelphia (Amman) which was not overlain 50-100 years ago by one of the scores of modern villages that grew up on the ruins of the...
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Peake Pasha Takes to the Air
From 1921 to 1939, the principal British military officer in Transjordan was Colonel C. F. Peake - Peake Pasha. Peake had founded the Arab Legion and been responsible for establishing small detachments...
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View Counts for APAAME on Flickr
Thanks to Andrew Wilson for this graph illustrating the steady and accelerating usage of the APAAME archive. As of 9 February it stands at 7,534,945 … a rise of over half a million in four months.
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Motion Picture Aerial Archaeology
An earlier blog looked at the flights and photography of archaeological sites in Transjordan and Iraq of Robert Alexander MacLean in Summer 1922. Three years later (1925) MacLean joined a...
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Winged Crisaders and RAF's 14 Squadron in Jordan
I corresponded with the author several years ago and he kindly sent drafts of a couple of chapters covering 1915 to 1945 but I then missed that he had published the book. Now available in hard copy or...
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1937 Aerial Photos of ‘Pre-State Israel’
The 5th March 2017 edition of Haaretz carries a feature about the publisher Zalman Schocken and the unusual gift he had put together for some friends – albums of 40 aerial views of places in what was...
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An Unexpected Commemoration of the Tapline
A regular sight while flying over the Harret al-Shaam in Jordan is the ruler-straight line of the road running alongside the long-defunct Trans-Arabian Pipeline which carried fuel from Saudi Arabia to...
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HRH Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II during an aerial tour in Jordan’s skies over the Dead Sea.
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The UCL Institute of Archaeology Air Survey Photographs: an archaeological...
This blog was first featured on the EAMENA blog on September 4, 2017. It is replicated here by the author. The digitised collection is available for browsing through an Album on our Flickr. The...
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APAAME Research on Live Science
An article featuring our research into the mysterious stone structures, known as 'gates', has been posted on the Live Science website. Please follow this link to view the article:...
View ArticleAerial Archaeology in Saudi Arabia
Following the media surrounding David Kennedy's recent publication in the journalArabian Archaeology and Epigraphyabout the stone built structures in the area of Harrat Khaybar in Saudi Arabia,...
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Enter the U2 Spyplane Aerial Photography
Even if you are not old enough to remember the shooting down of Gary Powers and the huge international crisis that followed in 1960, you may have seen the more recent movie Bridge of Spies (culminating...
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