Ilha de Moçambique – Mozambique
Zanzibar – Tanzania
Tanzania’s mainland and islands have played a pivotal role in the trade between Africa, Europe, and the East for over a millennia. Trading empires built on slaves, gold, and ivory have risen and fallen over the ages. Fortune seekers, traders, captives, and rulers have brought with them new customs and lifestyles to this East African …
Ancient Boat Lab
The Ancient Boat Lab aims to apply an interdisciplinary approach to experimental archaeological reconstructions of the merchant vessels that sailed to and from Magan (the ancient name for the UAE and Oman) in the Bronze Age. Through engaging with construction methods, social histories, and historical and archaeological evidence, the Ancient Boat Lab takes researchers on …
Delma Island – UAE
The purpose is to chronicle the life and memories of Delma Island after the collapse of the pearl industry in the 1930s and the discovery of oil in Abu Dhabi in the 1950s. This is not an official historical record but rather the preservation of heritage and collective memories in the UAE’s age of …
Umm al Quwain – UAE
Project to be launched in Spring 2023. This program is part of the Cultural Heritage and Memory Mapping. View the map here: Link to map Contributors: Nurcan Yalman, Tim Power. Partners: Istanbul Nişantaşı University, DHAKIRA – Center for Heritage Studies at NYUAD.
Shipping Database
The database contains over 56 000 searchable records of Dutch voyages, dates, ship types, ports of departure, and origin as well as data about cargos and other maritime trade activities between 1595 and 1660. It can be used to explore how trade routes, port activities and ships changed over time and gives context to the …
Robben Island – South Africa
South Africa has been at the forefront of maritime archaeology on the African continent for over a decade. It holds a unique position at roughly the halfway point between Europe and the East, with some of the richest and most diverse maritime heritage in the world, including almost 3,000 shipwreck sites, land-based maritime sites, and …
Galle – Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in the Indian Ocean. Due to its strategic location at a crossroads of navigational routes between Arabia and Eastern Asia, it has long been a meeting place and cultural melting pot, with sailors and merchants from all over the world arriving here to trade. The …