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Website: Monuments of Syria
http://monumentsofsyria.com/The eyes of the world seem fixed on Syria presently, it is a tragedy that it could not be for different reasons than those of the conflict currently destabilising the lives...
View ArticleRoman Archaeology Group Free Lectures: Saturday, 8th February.
The Roman Archaeology Group has arranged for two illustrated lectures to be presented on Saturday, 8th February. All are welcome.2 Free Illustrated Lectures on: The Emperor Justinian and Petra,...
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Publications: Remote Sensing and ‘Big Circles’ A New Type of Prehistoric Site...
The most recent annual edition of the periodical Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (ZOrA) features a research article by Professor David Kennedy on a series of 'Big Circle' stone...
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Archives: The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is housed at the Library of Congress, Washington. The collection began as a result of the founding of a photo department at the American Colony in...
View ArticleWorkshop: Introduction to Aerial Archaeology Mar 2-4 2014
Introduction to Aerial Archaeology Workshop, in Jordan.March 2nd to 4th 2014 at the Department of Archaeology Al-Hussein Bin Talal University Petra-Jordan with Dr Robert Bewley and Dr Fawzi AbudanahWe...
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Research - KSA 3925-41 - Samhah Kite 35
I have been able to return to some analysis on the many kites in the vicinity of Khaybar in Saudi Arabia today. The good news is that Google Earth has updated imagery in the area, bad news is it looks...
View ArticleArchive: UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Film Archives
"The formidable mountains of Arabia Petraea still loomed miles away."1930 Circumnavigation #3 (1930) - Arthur and Kate Tode.The Film Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and...
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Workshop: Introduction to Aerial Archaeology March 2014
At the beginning of March this year you may remember that our Bob Bewley was about to hold an Aerial Archaeology Workshop with Dr Fawzi Abudanah at the Department of Archaeology, Al-Hussein Bin Talal...
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Publications: 'Nomad Villages' in North-Eastern Jordan
The May 2014 edition of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy features a new publication by David Kennedy.'Nomad Villages' in north-eastern Jordan: from Roman Arabia to Umayyad UrdunnDavid L....
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Conference: Green Arabia, Oxford April 2-4, 2014
Green Arabia: Human Prehistory at the Crossroads of ContinentsIn April 2014, the University of Oxford and Paleodeserts Project hosted an international conference called ‘Green Arabia’. It was sponsored...
View ArticleConference: Big Work for Small Planes – Using UAVs and Kites for Archaeology,...
TOPOI house Dahlem in Berlin will be hosting a symposium organised by the ArchaeoLandscapes Europe Project (ArcLand) and the Berlin Free University Excellence Cluster Topoi on the use of UAVs (Unmanned...
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Conference: 9th ICAANE Basel, Switzerland, June 9-13, 2014
The 9th biannual International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East is coming up in June of this year. The Conference is being hosted by the University of Basel (Kollegiengebäude der...
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Research: John William Burgon (1813-1888)
Petra – “A rose-red city, half as old as Time”Not again! How many more times is that line going to be quoted by everyone who ever writes anything about Petra!Many people do know the line and a good...
View ArticleConferences: ICAANE IX - round-up
This is a regular International Conference on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, held in Warsaw in 2011, due to be in Vienna next time, but this year in Basel, Switzerland.After Registration at...
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Research: Remote Sensing, Kites and Agriculture
This blog was originally posted as part of the 'Day of Archaeology' 2014 (11 July 2014). You can find all posts, and information, on their website: http://www.dayofarchaeology.com.The well defined...
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Research: The first Kites
In 2012, David Kennedy’s ‘Pioneers above Jordan’ article acknowledged the contribution to aerial archaeology by Royal Air Force pilots flying on the Cairo-Baghdad Airmail Route. The individuals who...
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Publications: Kites in 'Arabia' (iBook)
Apple iBooks has just published (1 September) a new book by Prof. David Kennedy with Rebecca Banks and Emergent Form's Paul Houghton on Kites in 'Arabia'.Kites in 'Arabia'David Kennedy with Rebecca...
View ArticleVideo: Aerial photography of Kites
If you want to see Kites from the Jordanian harra like we do - from a helicopter, check out this short YouTube video showcasing some of the Kite footage taken by Matthew Dalton during the Aerial...
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Research: Qasr Ain el-Beidha
In c. 1981 David Kennedy visited Qasr Ain el-Beidha as part of his investigations into the archaeological traces of the Roman frontier in North-East Jordan. The site shows clearly on the Hunting Aerial...
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Photographs: Deir Ain Abata Project
Dr. Konstantinos Dino Politis has made available to APAAME his collection of slides and negatives taken in the course of aerial reconnaissance in Jordan over a period from the early 1990s until the...
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