Caesarea, Ancient Tsunami Research

In June 2010, a land excavation and a marine excavation were conducted simultaneously in Caesarea (License No. G-25/2010; land site map ref. 190480/712907, marine site map ref. 189795/712866), as part of research into tsunami events. The land excavation was conducted by M. Artzi of the Institute for Maritime Studies at the University of Haifa, and the marine excavation was conducted by B. Goodman-Tchernov of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa, in collaboration with J. Sharvit of the Israel Antiquities Authority's Marine Archaeology Unit and D. Hendrik from Hunter College New York, with the assistance of M. Oren-Pascal (pottery reading), S. Zagorsky (pottery drawing) and S. Ben-Yehuda (drafting).