EAMENA

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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

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).
Map showing heritage site conditions across the Gaza Strip. Basemap source: Positron.
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).
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 1941 aerial photograph of the Persian Garden site.
Digital Heritage Forum 2025, hosted by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi
'Reporting Heritage Destruction' just published by Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS), University of Oxford
'Recommendations for a Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Policy in Jordan' Publication
Reporting Heritage Destruction
The Pasha Palace seen in 2022 and again on 5 January 2024. Getty Images
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)
Unesco World Heritage Sites
An example of a heritage site at Seimareh Dam. Top June 2008, bottom November 2011. Images © Google Earth.
Hatra in Iraq aerial photo c 1930.
Some of the original team at EAMENA in 2015.
Integrating Cultural Heritage into Climate Policies in the Middle East Workshop in Jordan with Petra National Trust. Funded by AHRC.
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).
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).
Jehad Yasin, Director Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity, Palestine (MOTA), and Bill Finlayson, Director, EAMENA at Stonehenge.
Damage across the central courtyard of Hathat Palace. CCHP
Opening of the workshop with, from left to right, Prof. Jan Ciglenečki (University of Ljubljana), Dr. Thomas Huet (University of Oxford), and Dr. Zeinab Hanafy Ali (Bibliotheca Alexandrina).