Visitors may have noticed that a new section entitled ‘Presentations’ has been added to this website. There you not only find a list of past presentations and lectures we gave around the globe, but you may also have a sneak peek at a sample paper that was delivered recently at a professional conference (this part will only be updated sporadically since we don’t want to shoot our wad in advance...). Consider it as the field report on the 2008 field season!

In view of the image to the right, we would like to ask all visitors of Tel Kinrot to be very vigilant when visiting the site. We invested a lot to protect the now beautifully conserved «Field I» from unwanted guests, especially donkeys. These long-eared fellows love the shades of the high-standing walls and the soft and clean dust covering the floors. But - alas - they heavily damage the ruins. So please: close the gates to the excavation field after entering and leaving the site!

...and we’ll do our very best, Miss Sophie... – The directors of the Kinneret Regional Project will report on the results of the 2008 season at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, which will take place from Wednesday, 19 November until Saturday 22 November at the Westin Waterfront Hotel in Boston/USA. The title of our paper is “Kinneret Regional Project—The 2008 Field Season” and the session we’re in is scheduled for Saturday 22, from 4:15-6:15 pm (for the academic program of this congress click here).
Additionally, we will present our project during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in a session called “Archaeological Excavations and Discoveries: Illuminating the Biblical World” (SBL23-5) with a paper “Kinneret: A Nonbiblical City in the Land of the Bible” scheduled for Sunday November 23, 2008, 9:00-9:35 am (for an abstract click here and search for ‘Kinneret’). Both papers will be presented by Stefan Münger. – We would be happy to meet you there, if you are in the area (BTW: if you did not get the title of this post, click on the picture...!)

Staff member Juhana Saukkonen (UCL London) will present a lecture on the 2007 Season of the Kinneret Regional Project at the 6ICAANE in Rome on May 8th, 2008, 11:00-11:30 am.

6ICAANE is the sixth International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, which is this year hosted from May 5th to May 10th, 2008 by the La Sapienza – Università di Roma. The aim of 6ICAANE is to promote cooperation and information exchange between archaeologists working in all fields and areas of the Ancient Near East, from the Eastern Mediterranean to Iran and from Anatolia to Arabia, from prehistoric times to Alexander the Great.

The congress venue is the Museo dell’Arte Classica in the basement of the Facoltà di Scienze Umanistiche, Piazzale A. Moro 5. – If you happen to be in the region you should not miss...

Due to a bug in Internet Explorer 6 (and earlier versions) for Windows, our online application system might have failed in some rare cases. Therefore, if you applied during the last week using this internet browser, your application may not have come through.

In case you did not get an immediate (automated) answer by email after you registered and even more, if you did not get a confirmation that we processed your application, there is a high probability that we do not know about it.

We therefore ask you to apply again – either online (we found a workaround to fix it) or via the downloadable form. We apologize for this inconvenience. You might, however, consider using Firefox in order to avoid such problems in future.

As some of you complained that the old picture gallery has been taken off the web, we uploaded again all images that were once available in the old gallery of this site. The pictures are now in a better resolution and you may download them for your personal use.

However, access is restricted to the participants of the 2007 season. If you follow this link you will be prompted for a user name and a password. The user name is '2007' and the password is the name of the donkey that visited us quite often in the field last season (well... it is not 'axel', but... ; write the password in lowercase). Those who can't figure out the password may contact the 'Webmaster'.

Registration for the coming field season of the Kinneret Regional Project was opened today. We welcome students (and non-students) from all over the world to participate as team-members. From July 6 to July 25 you will explore the fascinating world of ancient cultures on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee and bring back to life the stories of the past. Applications must be submitted until May 1st, 2008. To apply click here.

This year, we will conduct a surface survey and soundings at Horvat Kur with remains from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine periods (3th c. BCE to 6 c. CE). Furthermore, we intend to excavate (and conserve) the last remaining portion of a large domestic complex dating to the end of the Iron Age I (ca. 950 BCE) at Tel Kinrot. Work in the field will be accompanied by evening lectures and field trips on weekends. No tuition fees are charged.

Fieldwork started already early this year. At the end of January and beginning February 2008, a small team of students headed by Prof. Dr. Michael Heinzelmann (Institute of Archaeology, University of Bern) conducted together with Jürgen Zangenberg, co-director of the Kinneret Regional Project, a geophysical prospection at Horvat Kur and Tel Kinrot at. Currently, we are eagerly awaiting the results.

A few weeks later, Wolfgang Zwickel (project coordinator) visited Tel Kinrot and shot the image to the right. The Tel is in good shape and the vegetation is flourishing.