The Palestine Exploration Fund

28/05/2026

📢 Event coming up at the PEF!

"Syria's Cultural Heritage after Fourteen Years of Conflict: Loss, Resilience and Recovery," with Hiba Alkhalaf.

🗓️ 11th June 2026 | 6pm
📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

08/05/2026

Event coming up at the PEF!

“Origins & Peculiarities of Early Urban Experiences in Palestine & Jordan: A View from Jericho and Batrawy,” with Lorenzo Nigro.

🗓️ 21st May 2026 | 6pm
📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

06/03/2026

📢 Event coming up at the PEF!

"The Role of Animals at Medieval Islamic Zughar in the Bilad ash-Sham: preliminary zoological analyses."

🗓️ 19th March 2026 | 🕕 6pm
📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

30/01/2026

📢 Event coming up at the PEF!

"Witnessing through Art: Exploring Palestinian heritage within the collection of the PEF"

🗓️ 19th February 2026 | 🕕 6pm
📍5-6 Dreadnought Walk, SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

31/12/2025

🧵 PEF Funding & Awards Open!

📣 Funding and awards are now open at the Palestine Exploration Fund, including the Annual Research Grants 2026 and the Routledge Philip R. Davies Early Career Publication Award.

🔗 Full details and application information:

Annual Research Grants 2026 Applications Open The PEF Annual Research Grants for 2026 are now open.  Applications for the 2026 round will be accepted from mid December 2025 and will close in late February 2026. Please refer to the documents attached for precise dates.  The Committee welcomes  app...

26/11/2025

🔔 Our final PEF lecture of the year!

"How I Discovered the Middle East: A Jane Taylor Adventure Story" with Jane Taylor, introduced by Bob Bewley

🗓️ 4 Dec 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 5–6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich, London SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

22/10/2025

📢 Event coming up at the PEF!

"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird

🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]

28/09/2025

▶️ New on the PEF YouTube Channel!

Looking West: Assyria in the Levant in the Times of Adad-nerari III — a lecture by Dr John MacGinnis.

👉 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksZPh5GCKCk

🔔 Subscribe to the PEF channel for more lectures!

Looking West: Assyria in the Levant in the Times of Adad-nerari III – John MacGinnis

03/09/2025

A reminder that the event is tomorrow! 👇

21/08/2025

📢 September event at the PEF!

Join us for:
“Hold the Line: Byzantine Archaeology in Colonial Palestine 1800–1948” with Daniel Reynolds

🗓️ Thursday 4th September 2025
🕕 6pm
📍 5–6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP

✍️ RSVP by emailing [email protected]

We hope you can join us!