TEL AKKO

Located on one of the few safe anchorages along the southern Levantine coast, the ancient port city of Tel Akko served as a major cross-roads and meeting place between east and west throughout its three thousand year history. Five thousand years ago, the earliest inhabitants of Akko settled on a low kurkar hill that overlooked the fertile Akko plain, just north of the Bellus or Na‘aman River mouth as it flows into the Mediterranean Sea. Today the 22 hectare tell, locally known as Napoleon’s hill due to a mistaken urban legend that places Napoleon’s camp on the mound, is a municipal park. From the top of the tell, visitors can view Akko’s picturesque historic harbor and the UNESCO World Heritage site of Crusader and Ottoman period Acre/Akko/Akka. Beginning in 2010, an international team of archaeologists and students from the United States, Israel, Europe and Asia are uncovering Tel Akko’s rich Canaanite and Phoenician history and discovering the world of total archaeology.

Tel Akko

TOTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Tel Akko Total Archaeology: 2010 – 2019

From 2010 to 2019 Tel Akko excavations continued, with many finds being brought the Hatter laboratory in The University of Haifa. Click here to read more about EXCAVATION SEASONS.

Tel Akko Study Season 2022

This year, a team of specialists will study the finds and compile papers and articles for publication. Click here to read more about the STUDY SEASON.

TOTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

To realize the project’s short and long-term research goals, we use a holistic approach to the past that we’ve termed “Total Archaeology”. It integrates archaeological survey, systematic excavation, a robust conservation plan, a public outreach program and the incorporation of the largely unpublished results from earlier expeditions to address a practical research agenda, all of which has necessitated the development of a cutting edge multi-dimensional recording system.

TOTAL ARCHAEOLOGY @ TEL AKKKO

EXCAVATION

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

FIELD SCHOOL

CONSERVATION

3D DOCUMENTATION

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

PUBLICATION

TOTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

To realize the project’s short and long-term research goals, we use a holistic approach to the past that we’ve termed “Total Archaeology”. It integrates archaeological survey, systematic excavation, a robust conservation plan, a public outreach program and the incorporation of the largely unpublished results from earlier expeditions to address a practical research agenda, all of which has necessitated the development of a cutting edge multi-dimensional recording system.

TOTAL ARCHAEOLOGY @ TEL AKKKO

FIELD SCHOOL

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

EXCAVATION

CONSERVATION

3D DOCUMENTATION

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

PUBLICATION