
EAMENA
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Project @UniofOxford @school_of_arch @uniofleicester @durham_uni using remote sensing technologies to record & map #endangered #archaeology in MENA region
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📢EAMENA has developed an automatic change detection (ACD) system using Google Earth Engine (GEE) to keep track of the destruction of cultural heritage in #Gaza - read all about what it shows about the damage in our latest blog post👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 eamena.org/eamena-blog-0 #Protectheritage


📢Check out our newest open-access paper by Bijan Rouhani & Thomas Huet on the historical landscape of Sistan in #Iran & #Afghanistan. They introduce the EAMENA dataset for assessing environmental impact on #culturalheritage in this region. Oxford School of Archaeology doi.org/10.5334/joad.1…


Last month members of our Leicester team, Prof David Mattingly & Nichole Sheldrick were in southern Morocco with the Oasis Civilisation project, a collaboration between School of Archaeology & Ancient History, UCL Institute of Archaeology, INSAP and the European Research Council (ERC) funded #EverydayIslam project.



On May 15th, our Bijan Rouhani moderates a panel on Documenting the Destruction of Heritage & Seeking Solutions, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention. Hosted by Cultural Emergency Response (CER) Smithsonian|CRI & Blue Shield International Tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/documenting-…


Exciting news - our Ishiba Durham Archaeology has developed a QGIS plugin allowing users to open their QGIS map canvas location on the Corona CAST Atlas webpage to view declassified satellite imagery of the same area. Find the plugin at: github.com/ishibaro/CAST-… Instructions on images 😊


Read our latest blog where our @michael_fradley discusses the continuing issue of open-access #satellite imagery over #Gaza, and the clear discrepancy of availability on Google Earth compared to other parts of the #mena region👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 eamena.org/article/endang…


In partnership with Oxford School of Archaeology, Durham Archaeology and School of Archaeology & Ancient History, we are delighted to announce a new 3-year grant of 2.2 million from Arcadia Fund to support the continuation of the EAMENA project. Read all about our future plans and impact here:👇🏻👇🏻 twtr.to/-HnFj


Our data is being used as part of analysis of cultural heritage damage in #Gaza by Bellingcat + Scripps News. Their use of VHR #satellite imagery was enabled in part by EAMENA's earlier work advocating reform of the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment #kba 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 bellingcat.com/news/2024/06/2…


New #Jordan school book on 'Jordanian Prehistory' written by Profs Dr. Zeidan A. Kafafi & Maysoon Al Nahar & Dr Sahar Khassawneh. Sahar's co-PIs, our Bill Finlayson & Sam Smith from Oxford Brookes sponsored the publication! "الأردن في عصور ما قبل التاريخ" drive.google.com/file/d/1uzGtHi…




Yesterday, our Ahmed Buzaian & Ahmed Mutasim Abdalla Mahmoud, w/ Muftah Ahmed, presented at The Egypt Exploration Society conference on #ClimateChange & #HeritageAdaptation showcasing the EAMENA Machine Learning Automated Change Detection tool for heritage monitoring & the results of fieldwork in Libya.


Have you got the passion and knowledge to be our new Researcher and Database Manager and join our team in the Oxford School of Archaeology? APPLY NOW: Deadline- noon, 4 Nov, 2024👇👇 arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies#… #archaeologyjobs #postdocposition #endangeredarchaeology #GitHub #python #JSON #linux


Announcing our Arts and Humanities Research Council project with Petra National Trust which is pioneering the integration of cultural heritage and climate policy in Jordan, home to several World Heritage sites, to create a platform for developing a national policy. Read all about it 👇🏻eamena.org/article/integr…


Our colleagues Durham Archaeology & University of al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have used declassified spy satellite images to help locate the lost site of a famous early Islamic battle, #Battleofalqadisiyyah which took place in 637/8AD. Find out more👇🏻cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🅰ntiquity Journal

