The Ancient Saar Project: London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition

This collection comprises the digital archive for the The Ancient Saar Project. Reports with accompanying figures, a project database and an imagebank database are available to download, with the latter containing 1656 photographs and drawings of the Saar excavations and finds.

The excavations at Saar, Bahrain, took place between 1990 and 1999. The work was undertaken by the London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition which was formed specifically for the purpose. The UK academic supporter of the project was the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London. In Bahrain, the Expedition received the patronage of the Amir, the late Shaikh Isa bin Sulman Al-Khalifa. The project was funded mainly by the business community in Bahrain, as well as by the British Academy and other academic funding bodies. Archiving of the Saar Imagebank was funded by the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund. The directors were Robert Killick, Jane Moon, and Harriet Crawford (for the period 1990-5).