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Maritime cultural heritage and urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa

Maritime cultural heritage and urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa
Maritime cultural heritage and urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa
Urbanisation, comprising development, land reclamation and population growth along coastal margins, continues to place significant pressure on the maritime cultural heritage (MCH), particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Thus, there is a growing need for ascertaining the extent of the affected MCH resource and its condition. One such assessment is being undertaken by the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) project, which is generating a unique informed database of the maritime resource in the MENA region. Through a regional overview combined with focused assessment on two case studies – Marsa Matruh (Egypt) and Bahrain – this paper demonstrates the threat urbanisation poses and the damage it has inflicted on MCH. The analyses and documentation that MarEA produces via remote sensing, desk-based and field-based assessments, constitutes a valuable resource that, at the very least, exists in digital perpetuity. It establishes a record that can be drawn upon to formulate targeted strategies and initiatives inclusive of the maritime cultural heritage resource.
Endangered Archaeology, Middle East and North Africa, Urbanisation, coastal development, heritage database, maritime cultural heritage
1756-7505
El Safadi, Crystal
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Ray, Nick
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El Safadi, Crystal, Ray, Nick, Ortiz Vazquez, Rodrigo, Nikolaus, Julia, Blue, Lucy, Westley, Kieran, Andreou, Georgia and Breen, Colin (2022) Maritime cultural heritage and urbanisation in the Middle East and North Africa. The Historic Environment. (doi:10.1080/17567505.2022.2075070).

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Abstract

Urbanisation, comprising development, land reclamation and population growth along coastal margins, continues to place significant pressure on the maritime cultural heritage (MCH), particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Thus, there is a growing need for ascertaining the extent of the affected MCH resource and its condition. One such assessment is being undertaken by the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) project, which is generating a unique informed database of the maritime resource in the MENA region. Through a regional overview combined with focused assessment on two case studies – Marsa Matruh (Egypt) and Bahrain – this paper demonstrates the threat urbanisation poses and the damage it has inflicted on MCH. The analyses and documentation that MarEA produces via remote sensing, desk-based and field-based assessments, constitutes a valuable resource that, at the very least, exists in digital perpetuity. It establishes a record that can be drawn upon to formulate targeted strategies and initiatives inclusive of the maritime cultural heritage resource.

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Accepted/In Press date: 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 May 2022
Published date: 3 July 2022
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords: Endangered Archaeology, Middle East and North Africa, Urbanisation, coastal development, heritage database, maritime cultural heritage

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Local EPrints ID: 457470
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/457470
ISSN: 1756-7505
PURE UUID: fe89ada3-331a-43a3-812c-e1a721e2e464
ORCID for Crystal El Safadi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6399-5875
ORCID for Rodrigo Ortiz Vazquez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3451-0952
ORCID for Georgia Andreou: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8557-9554

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Date deposited: 09 Jun 2022 16:52
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:56

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Author: Nick Ray
Author: Julia Nikolaus
Author: Lucy Blue
Author: Kieran Westley
Author: Georgia Andreou ORCID iD
Author: Colin Breen

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