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📣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

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).

November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM

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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

November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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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.

November 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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📣'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

October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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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' Publication

General view of As Salt World Heritage Site. Photo by H. Abedalhaleem

The Cultural Hub Bayt Yaish - Petra National Trust, Amman, Jordan

Her Royal Highness Princess Dana Firas, President of PNT, at launch of Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Policy Publication

October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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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.

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October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM

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📣📣 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...

September 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM

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📣📣 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...

September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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📣📣 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#...

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June 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM

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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/

June 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM

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Scroll through for our latest update on #heritage places and link to our #EAMENA #Database!! 👇🏻👇🏻
database.eamena.org

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May 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM

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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...

May 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM

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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...

May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM

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📣 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...

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The Pasha Palace seen in 2022 and again on 5 January 2024. Getty Images

March 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM

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📣 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)

March 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM

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📣 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...

March 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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📣 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.
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March 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM

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Enroll now! #Farsi & #French 👇🏻
FARSI: tinyurl.com/4ezwemfa
FRENCH: tinyurl.com/ybumt2au

#culturalheritage #ProtectHeritage #Archaeology #RemoteSensing #MENA

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March 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM

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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.

February 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM

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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...

February 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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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.

January 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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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.

December 16, 2024 at 2:26 PM

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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.

December 6, 2024 at 10:49 AM

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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.