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The MAHSA Project & Partners are pleased to announce a new article in the Journal of Field Archaeology, exploring the Survey of India’s often incidental historic recording of archaeological sites and our ongoing work to document this heritage.The SoI’s systematic documentation has enabled us to record sites, known and unknown, to deepen our underst…

📣 MAHSA & MAEASaM host CAA-UK 25!Last week we welcomed a record number of delegates to Cambridge for the CAA-UK conference on computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology.We enjoyed two days of workshops, presentations and computational conversations at the Henry Wellcome Building.A huge thank you to our conference contributors, de…

Big news! 📢 MAHSA team members have just published their research on South Asian social media and heritage in the collection, Reporting Heritage Destruction.Afifa Khan, Mou Sarmah, Vaneshree Vidyarthi, Rebecca Roberts, and Cameron Petrie discuss the complex relationship between cultural heritage and social media in South Asia. Navigating digital di…

The Department of Archaeology announced the appointment of MAHSA's Prof Cameron Petrie as the next Head of Department.Prof Petrie said, “I really look forward to leading the Department in quite a challenging time for universities but also a time which is an excellent opportunity to consolidate all the gains we’ve made since the Covid pandemic and t…

The MAHSA team were at this year's Cambridge Festival to unveiled our newest outreach resource; an Augmented Reality sandbox. This interactive activity allows users to shape sand into digital topographic maps using an Xbox Kinect sensor combined with a projector and visualisation software fixed above a sandbox. This was generously funded by the Cen…

Earlier this month MAHSA held a 5-day training workshop for students, PhD researchers, archaeologists and geologists hosted at IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.Experts gave a variety of presentations on the Applications of GIS in Archaeology and Heritage with a mixture of case studies, theory and practical sessions.

The MAHSA project, and our sister project, MAEASaM, were awarded grants totalling £10.3 million to continue our work mapping and protecting endangered heritage sites.Read the full article here.

The Indians who mapped the archaeology of South Asia, by Indu Prasad, Afifa Khan & Rosie Campbell.Read now!

A survey of India's indispensable role in the World Wars, by the MAHSA team.Read now!

Thanks to the hard work of our RA Jack, we now have a new tool for the project - a QGIS plugin that detects the edges of georeferenced Survey of India maps and crops them. This produces a beautiful mosaic of tessellating map sheets!

Working with Brown History, Afifa and Rosie write about Pattan Minar and the archaeology in the region.Read now on the Brown History newsletter.