Name: Bridging Natural Sciences and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East
Start: 2024-12-03T01:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-04T21:00:00+01:00
Location: SESAME and Jordan Museum, Amman

Bridging Natural Sciences and Cultural Heritage in the Middle East

from Tuesday 3 December 2024 (01:30) to Wednesday 4 December 2024 (21:00)

Monday 2 December 2024
Tuesday 3 December 2024

08:30 Transfer to SESAME Lightsource
Transfer to SESAME Lightsource
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse

09:30 Registration
Registration
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
10:00 Welcome
Welcome
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Various
Contributions

10:00 Welcome by the SESAME Director-General and the President of the Council - Khaled Toukan Rolf-Dieter Heuer

10:10 Goals of the Meeting - Frank Lehner (DESY)
10:20
10:20 - 11:00
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
Contributions

10:20 Overview of the SESAME and opportunities in cultural heritage - Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

10:40 The importance of synchrotron radiation in archaeology and cultural heritage studies of Southwest Asia: Why now? - Gonca Dardeniz (Uni Istanbul)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
11:30 Written Artefacts I
Written Artefacts I
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
Contributions

11:30 Accessing hidden text on papyri - Elephantine and beyond - Eid Mertah (Egyptian Museum , Cairo) Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and HZB/FU Berlin) Verena Lepper (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Berlin)

12:10 Early Islamic dipinti from archaeological contexts - Hagit Nol (Uni Frankfurt)

12:35 Digging up History: Archaeological Investigations at the Caves of the Dead Sea Scrolls by DAJ - EBAF - PAM - ASOR (1949 - 1956) - Marcello Fidanzio (Swiss Italian Uni)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
14:00 Written Artefacts II
Written Artefacts II
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
Contributions

14:00 Understanding Written Artefacts with the CSMC Mobile Lab – Projects, Possibilities and Perspectives - Claudia Colini (Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures CSMC, U Hamburg) Sebastian Bosch (Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures CSMC, U Hamburg) Shervin Farridnejad (Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures CSMC, U Hamburg)

14:20 Study of enclosed cuneiform tablets with mobile x-ray tomography - Katrin Zerbe (Deutsches Elektron-Synchrotron, DESY)

14:40 Discussions
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:15
Room: Various
15:15
15:15 - 17:15
Room: Theater Room, SESAME Guesthouse
Contributions

15:15 Petrography and XRD in pottery analysis - Hussein M. Al-Sababha (Jordanian Heritage Museum, Yarmouk Uni)

15:35 Natural sciences and cultural heritage: some applications on ancient pottery - Eman Khalifa (Uni Cairo)

15:55 Tall Zira'a and (unresolved) archaeometric questions - Patrick Leiverkus (Biblical-Archaelogical Institute, Uni Wuppertal)

16:15 Hellenistic-Roman wall painting in Jordan: Questions from archaeology on material analysis - Britta Jansen (German Protestant Institute of Archaeology/GPIA Amman)

16:35 The use of synchrotron radiation for the characterization of Roman Wall paintings from Bayt Ras tomb - Sahar al Khasawneh (Department of Conservation and Management of Cultural Resources, Yarmouth University)
17:15 SESAME Tour
SESAME Tour
17:15 - 18:30
Room: Facility Tour

18:30 Transfer to working dinner
Transfer to working dinner
18:30 - 18:45

18:45 Working dinner.
Working dinner.
18:45 - 21:00

21:00 Transfer back to Guesthouse or Hotel
Transfer back to Guesthouse or Hotel
21:00 - 21:20
Wednesday 4 December 2024

09:30 Transfer from Marriott to Jordan Museum
Transfer from Marriott to Jordan Museum
09:30 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 10:50
Room: Various
Contributions

10:00 Welcome by the Director of the Jordan Museum - Ihab Amarin (Jordan Museum)

10:30 Opening by the SESAME Council Chair and SESAME Scientific Director - Andrea Lausi (SESAME) Rolf-Dieter Heuer
10:50 Ancient Metals and Fossils, human remain
Ancient Metals and Fossils, human remain
10:50 - 12:15
Contributions

10:50 Ancient Metals: Searching for the origins of iron technology - Ernst Pernicka (Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometrz) Ivan Stepanov (Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry) Michael Brauns (Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry)

11:23 Fossils, human remains: Studying human evolution using synchrotron radiation and microCT - Alexander Stoessel (University of Jena and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

11:46 Fossils, human remains: Key Questions in Human Bioarchaeology addressed as SR at SESAME - Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute)
12:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
12:15 - 12:40
Room: Various
12:40 Ideas Excavation sites
Ideas Excavation sites
12:40 - 13:40
Contributions

12:40 Exploring Tulul adh-DhahabÖ Excavations, Discoveries and Analytical Needs - Asuman Lätzer-Lasar (Uni Marburg)

13:10 Preservation of cultural heritage at the excavation site of Quebec el-Hawa, Aswan- Egypt - Martin Bommas (Qubbet al-Hawa Research Project, QHRP)
13:40 Lunch
Lunch
13:40 - 14:10

14:10 Museum Tour
Museum Tour
14:10 - 15:15
15:15
15:15 - 16:30
Contributions

15:15 The Scientific Infrastructure at LEIZA: past - present - future - Roland Schwab (Leibniz-Center for Archaeology, LEIZA)

15:45 Building a Corporation Network Germany- Amman - Maram Na´es (TU Berlin)

16:10 The EU Sunstone Project - Mariangela Cestelli Guidi (INFN)
16:30 Wrap-Up and Conclusions
Wrap-Up and Conclusions
16:30 - 17:00

17:00 Transfer to Dinner
Transfer to Dinner
17:00 - 17:10

17:10 Working Dinner, Reem Al Bawadi Resturant
Working Dinner, Reem Al Bawadi Resturant
17:10 - 19:10