Incredible study trip to Jordan by students of prehistoric archaeology from Faculty of Science | UNIGE UNIGE_en Université de Genève Visits to major sites #ainghazal #albeidha #baja #shawbakdolmens #tellalumayri #babedhdhra #petra thanks to Méryl Defours and the students for the preparation

📢🇵🇱🇱🇧It's time for the second of the MEG-A project! 🤠 The Polish team arrived in Akkar, northern Lebanon to study the megalithic culture. Already off to the survey!

📣Tara Steimer-Herbet Méryl Defours and the Swiss team has just ended their field season of excavatios in the Lebanese Menjez dolmens 👏🏻 🤓We are expecting sensational results regarding the pre-megalithic settlements. Also the OSL dates from the megalithic tombs are on their way 🎯

MEG-A project OSL party! The results of the first samples taken in 2022 were encouraging. We hope to do better this year Faculty of Science | UNIGE Fonds National Suisse Lebanese Ministry Of Culture

Solitude in a dolmen. Méryl Defours sorting out tomb's construction strategy. MEG-A Megaliths of northern Levant project 23 in Akkar, Lebanon 🇱🇧 step 1️⃣.

The first step of the MEG-A Project is kicked off! The Swiss group is heading into the field for a second season of research on the megaliths of northern Lebanon! Tara Steimer-Herbet and her team will excavate at @MenjezMunicipality to learn more about the dating of graves.

Yesterday we presented megaliths of Akkar in Lebanon at 13ICAANE@Copenhagen. Polish and Swiss team united under one standard :)

Méryl Defours will present her methodology “From one side to the other: what the analysis of the monoliths of the monuments of Menjez in Akkar (Lebanon)”. What a great day for the megalithism in the Near East and Lebanon in particular Faculty of Science | UNIGE Swiss National Science Foundation Lebanese Ministry Of Culture

ICAANE here we are! Thanks to Fonds National Suisse Faculty of Science | UNIGE Université de Genève for their support to MEG-A project. We are presenting the first results of our field work in the Akkar north Lebanon, the most wonderful place for the megalithism Méryl Defours MEG-A Project

MEG-A Team back to Geneva, time for report and sample's analysis. Thanks to DGA and the inhabitants of Menjez - Lebanon (North Akkar) Faculty of Science | UNIGE Fonds National Suisse MEG-A Project Lebanese Ministry Of Culture

Us too! MEG-A Project , Tara Steimer-Herbet , Méryl Defours, Filip Wałdoch ‼️📢 13ICAANE@Copenhagen Copenhagen abstracts submitted 💪🏻 We're looking forward to share our first results of the MEG-A project in Lebanon! 🇱🇧

MEG-A Project - This summer part of the terraces north of Menjez were ravaged by fire. This zone is very rich in vestiges we were able to document the structures and to make surface collecting Université de Genève MEG-A Project Fonds National Suisse Lebanese Ministry Of Culture Méryl Defours #Lebanon

Day #5 Menjez has a nice surprise in store for us with a typical Chalcolithic rectangular house near the megalithic tombs of Wadi Fazaa Université de Genève Faculty of Science | UNIGE Fonds National Suisse Lebanese Ministry Of Culture MEG-A Project Méryl Defours

So great to document the huge tombs of Akkar Université de Genève Fonds National Suisse Tara Steimer-Herbet MEG-A Project Marie Besse

D-6 before flying back to Akkar with the archaeological Swiss team of the MEG-A project Faculty of Science | UNIGE. This time we will search a tomb that has not been explored by Father M. Tallon USJ. Very happy to meet again our Lebanese colleagues for new adventures Lebanese Ministry Of Culture

and the famous thistles 😇 I am accompanied by Méryl Defours and Jakub Niewiesiewicz. Thanks to MEG-A Project my co-PI for her support Université de Genève Fonds National Suisse

MEG-A 2022, after having tried the OSL sampling at night, we test the sampling under the black tent! Luckily today there is not too much wind. Faculty of Science | UNIGE Université de Genève MTV Lebanon News LBCI Lebanon News Archeo Megaliths MEG-A Project