Palestine Exploration Fund
@palexfund.bsky.social
Founded in 1865 for the exploration of the Levant, and still supporting research there today.
5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom SE10 9FP
https://www.pef.org.uk/
5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom SE10 9FP
https://www.pef.org.uk/
📢 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
"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
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
📢 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
"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
▶️ 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!
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!
Looking West: Assyria in the Levant in the Times of Adad-nerari III
YouTube video by Palestine Exploration Fund
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September 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
▶️ 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!
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!
A reminder that the event is tomorrow! 👇
📢 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
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
September 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A reminder that the event is tomorrow! 👇
📢 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
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
August 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📢 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
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
⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇
📢 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 ✍️
"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 ✍️
June 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday! Details below 👇
📢 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 ✍️
"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 ✍️
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
📢 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 ✍️
"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 ✍️
A 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
"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
May 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A 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
"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
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I'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!
Explore pagan Jerusalem & a rare artefact linked to John 5:2 with Nathanael Vette (KCL) @nathanaelvette.bsky.social @palexfund.bsky.social
🎟️ Free – email rsvppef@gmail.com to book
🔗 www.pef.org.uk/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Thurs 15 May, 6pm
📍 PEF, Greenwich, Lond
🎟️ Free – email rsvppef@gmail.com to book
🔗 www.pef.org.uk/wp-content/u...
🗓️ Thurs 15 May, 6pm
📍 PEF, Greenwich, Lond
May 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'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!
Two events coming up soon at the PEF, one of them this Thursday! Details below 👇
📢 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 👇
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 👇
May 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Two events coming up soon at the PEF, one of them this Thursday! Details below 👇
Reposted by Palestine Exploration Fund
How many ways can you lie in a headline?
There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵
There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵
May 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
How many ways can you lie in a headline?
There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵
There's an interesting archaeology story here, but not the one that's being promoted 🧵
A reminder that these two events at the PEF are coming up soon!
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
📢 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 👇
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 👇
May 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A reminder that these two events at the PEF are coming up soon!
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
📢 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 👇
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 👇
April 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📢 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 👇
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 👇
⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday!
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
📢 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
"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
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
⏱️ A reminder that the event is this Thursday!
Details below 👇
Details below 👇
⏱️ A reminder that the event is next Thursday!
"Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox.
Details below 👇
"Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox.
Details below 👇
📢 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
"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
April 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
⏱️ A reminder that the event is next Thursday!
"Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox.
Details below 👇
"Material Afterlives: The Hijaz Railway in the Post-Ottoman Landcsape," with Nikolaus Cox.
Details below 👇
📢 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
"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
April 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
📢 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
"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
1/ 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."
Joint PEF-Albright Institute Fellowship for 2025-26:
Lisa Randisi, University College London 👏
"Archaeological Ephemera in Historical Collections from Palestine and Israel."
March 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
1/ 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."
Joint PEF-Albright Institute Fellowship for 2025-26:
Lisa Randisi, University College London 👏
"Archaeological Ephemera in Historical Collections from Palestine and Israel."
A 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 👇
"Flying High: 100 Years of Discovery & Recording Destruction from the Air in the Middle East," with Robert Bewley.
Details below 👇
March 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A 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 👇
"Flying High: 100 Years of Discovery & Recording Destruction from the Air in the Middle East," with Robert Bewley.
Details below 👇
1/ A selection of photographs taken during Olga Tufnell's travels in the 1920s and 1930s 📸🧵
March 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
1/ A selection of photographs taken during Olga Tufnell's travels in the 1920s and 1930s 📸🧵
📢 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 👇
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 👇
February 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 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 👇
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 👇
📢 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
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
February 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
📢 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
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
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See 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...
A reminder that this week's occupation archaeology conference featured NO 🇵🇸 archaeologist
www.pef.org.uk/overlooked-a...
Overlooked Archaeologists of Palestine - The Palestine Exploration Fund
By 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...
www.pef.org.uk
February 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
See 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...
A reminder that this week's occupation archaeology conference featured NO 🇵🇸 archaeologist
www.pef.org.uk/overlooked-a...
Reposted by Palestine Exploration Fund
🚨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
February 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🚨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
Reposted by Palestine Exploration Fund
My 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....
Land, indigeneity and archaeological ruins in Ottoman Palestine: the people of Beit Jibrin and the Palestine Exploration Fund
Palestinian 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...
www.tandfonline.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My 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....
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Pleased to have been included in this special issue edited by Simona Troilo covering issues of colonialism, labour and identity across the Eastern Mediterranean:
Read our latest Special Issue, Digging in the Eastern Mediterranean: antiquities, workforce & identities in Ottoman & post-Ottoman times [Creuser en Méditerranée orientale: antiquités, main-d'oeuvre & identités à l'époque ottomane & post-ottomane], here:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cerh20/3...
February 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Pleased to have been included in this special issue edited by Simona Troilo covering issues of colonialism, labour and identity across the Eastern Mediterranean:
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🚨"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/
Look: A Zionist archaeology conference that aims to normalize occupation archaeology
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
Amidst a genocide
Amidst a scholasticide
Amidst the obliteration of Gaza's heritage
Amidst the ruins of complicit academic fields and associations
SHAME! arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&...
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🚨"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/