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Project across @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk, @arcdurham.bsky.social, and @archanchistleic.bsky.social using remote sensing technologies to record & map #endangered #archaeology in the MENA region in our database

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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What happens when cultural heritage is destroyed in conflict - and who is held accountable? Our Dr Bijan Rouhani speaks to @bbcnews.bsky.social about the challenges of protecting heritage at risk and pursuing justice for its destruction. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #EAMENA #CulturalHeritage
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Cultural treasures are being destroyed worldwide - so why is no-one being punished?
A cauldron of conflicts is bubbling across the world, with cultural monuments being destroyed. These people are fighting against it.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Join us for our @britishacademy.bsky.social & Arcadia 'Mapping World Archaeology' Conference 📍Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, England 📅 Monday 7 December - Wednesday 9 December Register now! Early Bird rate £50 until 1st August! Follow link to register: 🔗 eamena.org/british-acad...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Congratulations to our Mohamed Kenawi & Jessica Distefano (ARCE) on the release of their book: Deir al-Ganadla: A Unique Coptic Church in Middle Egypt, exploring one of Asyut’s significant Coptic monastic sites, its art, architecture and the wider sacred landscape. www.amazon.co.uk/Deir-Al-Gana...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#Satellite images show further damage to the Commonwealth war cemetery in #Gaza. Between 5th and 16th April 2026 a bulldozed track was cut, covering the S. wall and part of the cemetery. This is symptomatic of continued damage to land and buildings across the occupied Red Zone. Source: Planet Labs.
Satellite image of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Gaza taken on 5 April 2026 with earlier damage in the southern corner of the cemetery (Source: Planet Labs).Satellite image of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Gaza taken on 16 April 2026 with the bulldozer damage visible along the S perimeter and a fire alight to the NW (Source: Planet Labs).
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Our Bijan Rouhani discusses whether cultural heritage has become a victim of the war in Iran. Watch the interview on BBC Arabic 🔗 www.bbc.com/arabic/artic...
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تراث حضاري ضحية الحرب في إيران - BBC News عربي
تراث حضاري ضحية الحرب في إيران
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our discovery of a series of Roman camps in SE Jordan is subject of episode 10 of the CBRL's Learning from the Past podcast. Featuring former director Bob Bewley & CBRL's Firas Bqa'in talking about the identification of sites & subsequent aerial survey & field survey. 🔗 www.cbrl.ac.uk/media-listing/
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Our Iraqi colleagues, Professor Zainalabideen Aljaafar, Dr Aqeel Ghalib Al-Khrayfawee, & Dr Jaafar Jotheri visited EAMENA’s Leicester team to present their work documenting the destruction of archaeological sites in Iraq. They also met Leicester’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Nishan Canagarajah.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our latest work shows how #Sentinel1 radar + #OpenStreetMap can track damage to urban heritage in near real-time during the conflict in #Iran. Focusing on #Tehran, #Isfahan, #Kermanshah & #Sanandaj, results highlight Tehran’s historic core is at greatest risk. Read more 🔗 eamena.org/eamena-blog-0
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our new report on satellite imagery assessment of damage to heritage sites in the Gaza Strip is online. This analysis records widespread damage across the territory & lists only 100 of the 524 sites listed on the EAMENA database as being in a ‘Good’ or ‘Fair’ condition. 🔗 eamena.org/article/remo...
Map showing heritage site conditions across the Gaza Strip. Basemap source: Positron.Detail showing condition of heritage sites across Gaza City, with the historic core to the north-west and the historic suburbs to the south-east. Basemap source: Positron.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our team were at #BANEA2026 at UCL, presenting papers on Sassanian frontier and pilgrimage routes in Iraq, knowledge production in the Neolithic, large-scale survey results in the Syrian Desert & contributing to a workshop on climate change and sustainability. www.banea-lcane.co.uk/banea-2026
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We recently welcomed colleagues from Iraq, Professor Zainalabideen Aljaafar, Dr Aqeel Ghalib Al-Khrayfawee, and Dr Jaafar Jotheri who presented their work documenting the destruction of archaeological sites by al-Qaeda and ISIS. Read about it here 🔗 www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/spec...
Pictured from left to right: Dr Salah Ebrahimipour (EAMENA), Dr Bill Finlayson(EAMENA), Dr Aqeel Ghalib Al-Khrayfawee, Professor Zainalabideen Aljaafar, Dr Jaafar Jotheri and Dr Michael Fradley (EAMENA).
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Our Bijan Rouhani contributes to article @aljazeera.com on how #Iran’s cultural heritage is being affected in current conflict. Reports suggest damage to several historic sites, incl Golestan Palace & Naqsh-e Jahan Square, both #UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Read 🔗 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
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Are the US and Israel waging war on Iran’s cultural heritage?
Iran says at least 56 of its heritage sites damaged or destroyed in war.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Book Launch: Reporting Heritage Destruction 5-6pm Thursday 5th March Guest Speakers: Prof Cécile Fabre, Prof Faisal Devji, Dr Bill Finlayson, Dr Bijan Rouhani & Dr Tim Clack @1 South parks Road, School of Archaeology Download Free 🔗 www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
📣📣Read our Michael Fradley's 'Postcard from the field' of his recent trip surveying Roman camps in the desert in #Jordan. 👇🏻 www.ox.ac.uk/pulse/societ... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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Postcards from the field: Archaeology
From exploring early farming practices on the shores of Lake Ohrid in Albania to surveying Roman camps in the Jordanian desert, understanding pre-Columbian populations in The Bahamas to examining pote...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Remote-sensing assessment of Gaza's heritage shows the devastating impact of systematic demolition of #Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya area as recently as December, incl. west of the Yellow Line. This area has the highest density of documented historic structures outside the centre of Gaza City.
A satellite image of the Shejaiya suburb of Gaza City taken on 2 December showing partial damage of the area from earlier in the conflict (Source: Planet).A satellite image of the Shejaiya suburb of Gaza City taken on 13 December showing widespread demolition that had taken place since 2 December (Source: Planet).
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📣 📣 Our new paper on the discovery of a 'lost' Persian Garden in #Tabriz #Iran using aerial photographs taken during the Second World War has just been published #OpenAccess in @antiquity.ac.uk. Read it here👇🏻 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social
A 1941 aerial photograph of the Persian Garden site. A schematic drawing of the visible features of the Persian Garden site.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📣📣We are delighted to share a new series of training videos on #EAMENA’s Machine Learning Automated Change Detection (MLACD) heritage monitoring tool. 💫 You can watch the full series on the EAMENA YouTube channel here👇🏻 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @archanchistleic.bsky.social
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EAMENA MLACD - YouTube
The EAMENA machine learning automated change detection (EAMENA MLACD) is a tool developed by EAMENA researchers to rapidly monitor the changes and threats at...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our Bijan Rouhani is delivering an online lecture for @cbrl.bsky.social this Wednesday 19th November. Register here: 👇🏻👇🏻🔗https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5CFHlFXNTDuMCxgZnVSU5A#/registration
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣Our Dr Bijan Rouhani took part in the Digital Heritage Forum, hosted by Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi on 3–5 November. Co-convening the technical session “Future of the Past: Risk Mapping, Communication & Community Resilience” with Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco. #DCTAbuDhabi
Digital Heritage Forum 2025, hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi Digital Heritage Forum 2025, hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi Panel of Dr Bijan Rouhani (Oxford University), Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco (University of Essex), Bernadette Devilat (University of Nottingham), Anwar Sabik (ICCROM Sharjah), Sophie Abraham (ALIPH), and Michelle Mumbi Gathigi (Spatial Collective Limited).
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We have a new paper out reporting on the remote-sensing survey of c.10k sites in the west Nafud region of north Saudi Arabia and southern Jordan, including the identification of a damaged fortified complex and hinterland features south of Tabuk👉🏻 doi.org/10.3390/heri... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford? Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree. Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Our team @arcdurham.bsky.social in Erbil with colleagues from the General Directorate of Heritage & Museums, developing a national heritage database to support the protection & sustainable management of the KRI's rich cultural heritage -they also tested the Amal in Heritage app for site assessment.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
📣'Reporting Heritage Destruction' just published by Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS) Hub. Exploring how cultural heritage destruction is reported - asking who reports, what is reported, how, and with what consequences. #openaccess www.archaeopress.com/.../missingP...
'Reporting Heritage Destruction' just published by Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS), University of Oxford
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Excited to launch our draft policy on Cultural Heritage & Climate Change in Jordan with Petra National Trust. It sets regional standard for sustainability & draws on studies from WH Sites: Petra, Jericho, As-Salt, & Baptism Site. English: zenodo.org/records/1725... Arabic: zenodo.org/records/1730...
'Recommendations for a Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Policy in Jordan' PublicationGeneral view of As Salt World Heritage Site. Photo by H. AbedalhaleemThe Cultural Hub Bayt Yaish - Petra National Trust, Amman, JordanHer Royal Highness Princess Dana Firas, President of PNT, at launch of Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Policy Publication
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Our team are just back from fieldwork in SE #Jordan! They were east of Bayir looking at a series of #Roman camps we first identified on satellite imagery in 2022. Look out for news of this survey in our future posts. @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @cbrl.bsky.social @robertbewley.bsky.social
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
📣📣 This Saturday 6th September EAMENA features on Bettany Hughes show on Channel 4 about the Nabataeans, which features flights with our Bob Bewley over the Roman camps we identified in SE Jordan. www.channel4.com/programmes/b... For our original research paper:👇🏻 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📣📣 Our Bill Finlayson & fellow archaeologists help to uncover the mystery of the hundreds of 'desert kites' stretching across the Arabian desert. Find out who built these megastructures, the purpose they served & the ingenious discovery that was unearthed...👇🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📣📣 We are holding an online event on Digital Heritage & the Global South on 15 July looking AI & the value & challenges it presents. Registration is FREE - please follow 🔗👉🏻 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/92c52c... More info found👇🏻 www.arch.ox.ac.uk/echgs-hub-0#... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Members of our team will be at the #ICAANE conference in #Lyon #France this week. Their papers will cover: the weaponisation of #heritage; new research in #Iraq; a satellite survey of the #Syrian desert; and excavations in the north #Jordan Valley. Find more info here 👇🏻https://14icaane.inviteo.fr/
Reporting Heritage DestructionICAANE Conference in Lyon, FranceICAANE Conference
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Scroll through for our latest update on #heritage places and link to our #EAMENA #Database!! 👇🏻👇🏻 database.eamena.org @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Our Australian followers can currently watch a documentary on the Nabataeans (hopefully broadcasting in the UK soon) that includes flights over the Roman camps we identified in SE #Jordan back in 2023: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... For our original research paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A new collection of papers in honour of Prof David Kennedy includes a chapter by our Michael Fradley on the pioneering aerial mapping of eastern #Jordan in 1931 which included the recording of archaeological features. Find it: ➡ sydneyuniversitypress.com/products/189...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📣 Our work with Palestinian colleagues in monitoring heritage damage in #Gaza is mentioned as part of an article out in @theguardian.com:👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social
The Pasha Palace seen in 2022 and again on 5 January 2024. Getty Images
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📣 A new article in 'The Art Newspaper' covers our work supporting Palestinian colleagues documenting conflict damage to heritage sites across the Gaza Strip: 👇🏻 www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/03/10/g...
A satellite image taken on 11 November 2023 showing damage to the historic core of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip (Source: Airbus via Google Earth)
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
📣 Our Mohamed Kenawi has written a blog about EAMENA's 10 years documenting #endangered archaeology in the MENA region. There are now around 370,000 recorded heritage places in the EAMENA database. #CulturalHeritage #protectheritage Read all about it here👇🏻 peoplingthepast.com/2025/02/21/b...
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 Read our Bill Finlayson & Bijan Rouhani's recent article which reassesses heritage values in the context of conflicts and diverse societies & calls for equitable preservation practices that respect diverse identities and memories associated with heritage sites. repositori.udl.cat/server/api/c...
Unesco World Heritage Sites
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
📣 Learn how to protect endangered archaeology with remote sensing! Join our free online course & master satellite imagery techniques to identify & safeguard heritage sites. Enroll now! Available in 4 languages: 👇🏻 #English & #Arabic ENGLISH: tinyurl.com/2s4zyycp ARABIC: tinyurl.com/4ybf9p5e
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our @bijanrouhani.bsky.social & his late colleague Farad Nazari look at how dam construction has damaged #Iran's archaeological sites & suggest cultural heritage policies that could lead to more sustainable development that preserve Iran’s rich cultural heritage. www.apicelibri.it/HandlerObjec...
An example of a heritage site at Seimareh Dam. Top June 2008, bottom November 2011. Images © Google Earth.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📣 Our @mfradley.bsky.social is researching a large collection of photos taken by the @royalairforce.bsky.social on the #Palestine Front in 1918, held at the Australian War Memorial, to understand heritage loss & landscape change in the Jordan Valley. Read about it here👇🏻: eamena.org/article/unde...
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Understanding Heritage Loss and Landscape Change in the Jordan Valley through Legacy Aerial Photography
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Read our @mfradley.bsky.social recent article in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum newsletter which looks at the potential of the UK's global collection of aerial photography for understanding how landscapes have changed. Scroll down to the 3rd article: www.commonwealthheritage.org/december-new...
Hatra in Iraq aerial photo c 1930.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📣 Student volunteers from @arcdurham.bsky.social are using satellite imagery & historic aerial photography to assess the condition of Samarra, an #endangered World Heritage Site in #Iraq and sharing results with collaborators in SBAH to help future protection initiatives. Read all about it here👇🏻
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EAMENA Volunteering – Assessing the Condition of Samarra, an Endangered World Heritage Site in Iraq
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
It's our 10 year anniversary! We thank Bob Bewley, David Kennedy & Andrew Wilson our co-founders, @ox.ac.uk for supporting us, Arcadia & the British Council for backing us, all our colleagues past & present who joined us, and our partners in the MENA region whom we have worked & collaborated with!
Some of the original team at EAMENA in 2015.EAMENA Team conducting training to MENA heritage professionals in Amman in December 2022.EAMENA Team conducting training to MENA heritage professionals in Tunis in November 2019.MENA heritage professionals celebrating completion of training in Tunis 2019.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The workshop "Integrating Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East," was held under patronage of Her Highness Princess Dana Firas of #Jordan. Policy proposals developed key recommendations for embedding cultural heritage within national climate change policies in the MENA region.
Integrating Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East Workshop in Jordan with Petra National Trust. Funded by AHRC.Jehad Yasin, Director, MOTA at Integrating Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East Workshop in Jordan with Petra National Trust. Funded by AHRC.Left to Right: E. Eng. Mohammad Habahbeh Commissioner of Infrastructure of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA), Her Highness Princess Dana Firas of Jordan. Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East Workshop in Jordan with Petra National Trust. Funded by AHRC.Left to right: Bijan Rouhani, Her Highness Princess Dana Firas of Jordan, & Bill Finlayson at Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East Workshop in Jordan with Petra National Trust. Funded by AHRC.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our colleagues @archanchistleic.bsky.social have developed an #EAMENA Machine Learning Automated Change Detection (MLACD) tool for monitoring disturbances & threats to archaeological sites. Read about their case study conducted at Bani Walid in #Libya here👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Study area of Bani Walid located in the north-west of Libya; where 211 archaeological sites recorded in the EAMENA database were monitored using the EAMENA Machine Learning Automated Change Detection (EAMENA MLACD).Urban expansion detected at site EAMENA-0087052. Images (a)–(f): High-resolution images from Google Earth showing the construction activity between 2009 and 2024; (g) classification time series at location (P); (h) Image of a newly built house in the north side of the site in February 2024.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our team held a Publication & Archaeological DAta Workshop at #Oxford with our colleagues from #Palestine's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities & #Jordan's Department of Antiquities to address scholarly inequalities and support our database contributors to publish their data in research & data papers.
From left to right: Ahmad Marafi (Jordan DoA), Sufyan Deis (Palestine MOTA), Bijan Rouhani (EAMENA/Oxford), Jehad Yasin (Director General, MOTA Palestine), Bill Finlayson (Director EAMENA), Thomas Huet (EAMENA/Oxford), Hana Lafi (Jordan DOA), Mariam Ibrahim (Jordan DOA).
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our @mfradley.bsky.social and @bill-finlayson.bsky.social explaining how #archaeologists are documenting the damage to #Gaza’s cultural heritage.
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Our @bill-finlayson.bsky.social and Jehad Yasin, Director of Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, Palestine at the wonderful #Stonehenge this morning. @englishheritage.bsky.social @visitstonehenge.bsky.social @oxsocsci.bsky.social
Jehad Yasin, Director Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity, Palestine (MOTA), and Bill Finlayson, Director, EAMENA at Stonehenge.Stonehenge
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Oxford Social Sciences Division @socsci.ox.ac.uk · 27/11/2024
🦋🎓 Welcome! It's great to have you here 🎓 🦋 We've created a starter pack for all Oxford's Social Sciences departments to make it easier for anyone to follow them all👇 go.bsky.app/E2yvAor
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
📣📣Read about our work in @uk.theconversation.com about how #EAMENA is working with our #Palestinian partners to document the damage to #Gaza’s #cultural #heritage & providing a list of heritage sites for future management of the historic environment. 👇🏻👇🏻 theconversation.com/gazas-cultur...
Damage across the central courtyard of Hathat Palace. CCHPThe damaged minaret of the the Great Omari mosque in Gaza City. CCHP
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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Our colleagues @archanchistleic.bsky.social, held a workshop for DoA Libyan heritage professionals on using EAMENA's Machine Learning techniques to monitor climate change impacts on archaeological sites. After the team applied these skills in the Fazzan region. #Heritage #ClimateChange #Archaeology
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