Jonathan Tubb is an author and the Keeper of the Department of the Middle East of The British Museum. He trained in Levantine archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in London, and began his field career in Syria in the 1970s, serving for eight years as assistant director of the Institute’s excavations at Qadesh on the Orontes. In 1984 he began directing excavations in Jordan on behalf of the British Museum, first at the Early Bronze Age site of Tiwal esh-Sharqi in the Jordan Valley and then, in 1985, at the nearby major site of Tell es-Sa’idiyeh, a project which is continuing to this day. In 2013 he began a new excavation project at Ras al-Hadd in Oman. An expert on Canaanite civilization, Jonathan is the author of many articles and several books on Levantine archaeology, including, Archaeology and the Bible and Canaanites.

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War on Heritage: Join David Pratt as he leads a discussion on the importance of protecting cultural heritage, and the challenges of preventing destruction in times of war. With British Museum archaeologist Jonathan Tubb, Roger Michel from the Institute for Digital Archaeology, Rim Turkmani, and biographer of buildings James Crawford. (2016)