14 August 2026
We have published a new essay on our blog, Insights: “Mapping the Past with Tools of Today: Survey Technology at Kallirhoe” by Matthew Vincent:
“How many times have we heard that story that starts with “When I first started, we did this, or that, or the other”? Well, this is another. Such stories get told for a reason, and it is not merely nostalgia (but, yes, it is partly nostalgia). It is that the pace of change in this field has been so fast, packed into such a short stretch of years, that the only way to make sense of where we stand now is to look back at where we came from.
“I stand today at Kallirhoe, courtesy of Jordan’s Department of Antiquities and a grant from the U.S. Embassy in Amman and the U.S. State Department’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation: Preservation and Protection of the Holy Land at Herod’s Ain az-Zara Palace and Port to Mukawir.”