Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 28/05/2026📢 Event coming up at the PEF! "Syria's Cultural Heritage after Fourteen Years of Conflict: Loss, Resilience and Recovery," with Hiba Alkhalaf. 🗓️ 11th June 2026 | 6pm 📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #PEF #Cultural #Heritage 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 30/03/2026📢 Event coming up at the PEF! 🤿 "Developing Capacities in Maritime Cultural Heritage Management and Protection," with Georgia Andreou and Julia Nikolaus. 🗓️ 17th April 2026 | 6pm 📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #PEF #Maritime #Cultural #Heritage 011
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 17/03/2026⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇 010
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 06/03/2026📢 Event coming up at the PEF! "The Role of Animals at Medieval Islamic Zughar in the Bilad ash-Sham: preliminary zoological analyses." 🗓️ 19th March 2026 | 🕕 6pm 📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #PEF #Archaeology #Zooarchaeology 010
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 15/02/2026A reminder that we are still accepting applications for our annual Field Research Grants until the 19th February 👇 021
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 15/02/2026⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇 010
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 30/01/2026📢 Event coming up at the PEF! "Witnessing through Art: Exploring Palestinian heritage within the collection of the PEF." 🗓️ 19th February 2026 | 🕕 6pm 📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #Palestine #Heritage #PEF 011
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 31/12/2025🧵 PEF Funding & Awards Open! 📣 Funding and awards are now open at the Palestine Exploration Fund, including the Annual Research Grants 2026 and the Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award. 🔗 Full details and application information: www.pef.org.uk/about/grants...pef.org.ukGrants & Awards - The Palestine Exploration FundAnnual Research Grants 2026 Applications Open The PEF Annual Research Grants for 2026 are now open. Applications for the 2026 round will be accepted from mid December 2025 and will close in late Febr... 122
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 24/11/2025🔔 Our final PEF lecture of the year! "How I Discovered the Middle East: A Jane Taylor Adventure Story" with Jane Taylor, introduced by Bob Bewley 🗓️ 4 Dec 2025 | 🕕 6pm 📍 5–6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #Archaeology #PEF 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 22/10/2025📢 Event coming up at the PEF! "Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird 🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm 📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP: rsvppef@gmail.com #Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF 142
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 28/09/2025▶️ New on the PEF YouTube Channel! Looking West: Assyria in the Levant in the Times of Adad-nerari III — a lecture by Dr John MacGinnis. 👉 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZP... 🔔 Subscribe to the PEF channel for more lectures!youtube.comLooking West: Assyria in the Levant in the Times of Adad-nerari IIIYouTube video by Palestine Exploration Fund 011
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 03/09/2025A reminder that the event is tomorrow! 👇 021
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 21/08/2025📢 September event at the PEF! Join us for: "Hold the Line: Byzantine Archaeology in Colonial Palestine 1800–1948" with Daniel Reynolds 🗓️ Thursday 4th September 2025 🕕 6pm 📍 5–6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com #Byzantine #Archaeology #Palestine #PEF 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 14/06/2025⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇 021
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 07/06/2025📢 June Event coming up at the PEF! "Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius. 🗓️ 19th June, 2025 🕕 6pm 📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com ✍️ 184
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 20/05/2025A reminder regarding the PEF event this Thursday! "Lessons Learned? Looting, Loss & Landscape at an Early Bronze Age Site, Jordan," with Morag M. Kersel. 🗓️ 22nd May, 2025 🕕 6pm 📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com 041
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundNathanael Vette @nathanaelvette.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I'll be speaking at the PEF (@palexfund.bsky.social) this Thursday on some intriguing connections between the Gospel of John and Aelia Capitolina (Jerusalem c.a. 130 CE). Do come along if you're in London! 043
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Two events coming up soon at the PEF, one of them this Thursday! Details below 👇 010
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundMichael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social · 06/05/2025How many ways can you lie in a headline? There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵 1124
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 09/05/2025A reminder that these two events at the PEF are coming up soon! Details below 👇 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 29/04/2025📢 Two May events at the PEF! 1) "The Beth-Zatha Vase & The Gospel of St. John: Memories of Pagan Jerusalem," with Nathanael Vette. 2) "Lessons Learned? Looting, Loss & Landscape at an Early Bronze Age Site, Jordan," with Morag M. Kersel. More information below 👇 121
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 22/04/2025⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 17/04/2025⏱️ A reminder that the event is next Thursday! "Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox. Details below 👇 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 09/04/2025📢 An April Event at the PEF! 🛤️ "Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox. 🗓️ 24th April, 2025 🕕 6pm 📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com 000
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 26/03/20251/ We are very pleased to announce the winners of two of our three grants awards! Joint PEF-Albright Institute Fellowship for 2025-26: Lisa Randisi, University College London 👏 "Archaeological Ephemera in Historical Collections from Palestine and Israel." 100
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 24/03/2025A reminder that the event is this Thursday! "Flying High: 100 Years of Discovery & Recording Destruction from the Air in the Middle East," with Robert Bewley. Details below 👇 111
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 09/03/20251/ A selection of photographs taken during Olga Tufnell's travels in the 1920s and 1930s 📸🧵 172
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 26/02/2025📢 Two March events at the PEF! 1st event: "The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History," with Nir Arielli. 2nd event: "Flying High: 100 Years of Discovery & Recording Destruction from the Air in the Middle East," with Robert Bewley. More information below 👇 131
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 17/02/2025📢 Check out more details for two upcoming PEF events! 👇 1st event: 'Mormons in the Holy Land: Pilgrimage, Exploration and Adventure in 19th Century Palestine' with Matthew Grey. 2nd event: 'The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History' with Nir Arielli 120
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundIsis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025See also this piece by Loay Abu Alsaud on overlooked Palestinian archaeologists, which is also published by @palexfund.bsky.social A reminder that this week's occupation archaeology conference featured NO 🇵🇸 archaeologist www.pef.org.uk/overlooked-a...pef.org.ukOverlooked Archaeologists of Palestine - The Palestine Exploration FundBy Loay Abu Alsaud. Our endeavour was to bring to light early contributions made to archaeology in Palestine by key Palestinians who have been overlooked by researchers. The first foreign scientific e... 084
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundIsis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025🚨The Society for Palestinian archaeologists expresses their gratitude & appreciation to the @palexfund.bsky.social board of trustees for its support and solidarity with the Palestinian cause + their condemnation of this week's grotesque occupation archaeology conference held in Jerusalem 1122
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundDr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 15/02/2025My article is “Land, indigeneity and archaeological ruins in Ottoman Palestine: the people of Beit Jibrin and the Palestine Exploration Fund”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comLand, indigeneity and archaeological ruins in Ottoman Palestine: the people of Beit Jibrin and the Palestine Exploration FundPalestinian nationalism and visions of Palestine as a nation have, since the loss in 1948 of 78% of Mandate Palestine to the newly founded State of Israel, focused on notions of rootedness and conn... 261
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundDr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Pleased to have been included in this special issue edited by Simona Troilo covering issues of colonialism, labour and identity across the Eastern Mediterranean: 1318
Reposted by Palestine Exploration FundIsis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025🚨"Statement from the Board of Trustees of the @palexfund.bsky.social regarding the 4-day conference held at the Dan Hotel in East Jerusalem, 10–13th February 2025 “Archaeology & Site Conservation of Judea and Samaria – The First International Conference”" Full text quoted in thread below 1/ 163
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 11/02/2025A reminder that the event is next Thursday! Details below 👇 031
Palestine Exploration Fund @palexfund.bsky.social · 31/01/2025📢 February event coming up at the PEF! 'Mormons in the Holy Land: Pilgrimage, Exploration and Adventure in 19th Century Palestine' with Matthew Grey. 🗓️ 20th February 🕕 6pm 📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP ✍️ RSVP by emailing rsvppef@gmail.com 052