Our Research — CAESAREA COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT

Investigate the post-classical city (7th – 20th centuries) and the nature of urban transformation
Examine the effects of natural disasters, such as tsunami events, on the city and its population
Connect the surrounding communities of Sdot Yam, Caesarea, Or Akiva, and Jisr al-Zarqa' to the site of Caesarea via public history including, museum development and local individual participation

Project Aims

Publications

Everhardt, C.J., et al. 2023. “Earthquake, Fire, and Water: Destruction Sequence Identified in an 8th Century Early Islamic Harbor Warehouse in Caesarea, Israel.” Geosciences 13(4), 108: 1-28. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13040108.

Steele, Riley E, Goodman Tchernov, B. N., et al. 2024. “Anthropogenic Structure Emplacement and Sediment Transport at King Herod’s Harbour, Israel: ED-ΜXRF (Itrax) Data and Foraminifer Pararotalia Calcariformata as Proxies of Coastal Development over Millennia.” Marine Geology 469: 107245–107245.

Presentations

Eger, A. "Global Interactions in the Late Ottoman and British Mandate Bosnian Coastal Town of Caesarea Maritima, Palestine." European Association of Archaeologists Annual Meeting, August 2024.

Eger, A. “Global Economy in the 19th Century Bosnian Town of Caesarea.” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, November 2023.

Eger, A. “The Coastal Caesarea Archaeological Project.” Greensboro Jewish Federation, June 2023.

Eger, A. “The Caesarea Coastal Archaeological Project.” Durham Jewish Community Center (Jewish for Good), March 2023.