The Trás do Castelo site in Vale de Mir, Pegarinhos, Portugal, is located in the Douro Valley on the edge of a granite plateau. Since 2012, numerous excavation campaigns have revealed the remains of an agricultural settlement established at the end of the 1st century AD and abandoned in the […]

The archaeological study of the Las Herrizas site is still in its preliminary phase. The first stage of the project involves a non-invasive study of the settlement and its immediate surroundings. This includes pedestrian surveys and the three-dimensional recording of semi-rupestrian features, such as beam dwellings, cisterns and stairways, using […]

The French Mission to Bouto (MfB), led by Loïc Mazou, Pascale Ballet and Patrice Georges-Zimmermann, took place in two phases (May 7 – June 6 and October 17 – November 1, 2024). This mission is part of a program to study the urban occupation of Bouto in the Imperial Roman […]

During the 2023 excavation campaign (May 8-June 11), our work focused on two main areas of the Bouto site: the western necropolis (sector P22-3) directed by P. Georges-Zimmermann, and the area of potters’ workshops (sector P23) under the direction of L. Mazou, where a spectacular discovery of over 1,000 double-batch […]

Between 2018 and 2022, the excavation of the round mound D6 and the space between it and the square monument D4, at the western end of the southwestern necropolis, was the focus of fieldwork. For the first time in the burials of the Silla del Papa, the relatively well-preserved stratigraphy […]

The aim of the 2024 campaign was to carry out a detailed study of the sites around the village of Phalyak, located on the west bank of the Kali Gandaki and 10 km north of Jomsom (administrative headquarters of Lower Mustang). The importance of this site lies, on the one […]

The Trás do Castelo site at Vale de Mir – Pegarinhos (Portugal) is located in the Douro Valley, on the edge of a granite plateau. Numerous campaigns carried out on the site since 2012 have revealed an agricultural settlement established in the late 1st century AD and abandoned in the […]

The first excavation campaign on Wadi Hasid has highlighted an hilltop site with a complexe architecture composed by structures located everywhere on the slope of the hill. The main monument mesure 32 m length and 7 m width. It is located at the top of a rocky promontory measuring 100 […]