Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Mapping the Socotran caves again... after a small pause...

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 After (a small pause of) 20 years, some of the cave maps are finally getting finished! All SKP-members have been active elsewhere, but than...
Tuesday, 15 July 2025

The Decipherment of the Dhofari Script – Three halḥam abecedaries and the first glimpses into the corpus

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Once in a while, here after a century of research, Prof. Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad, a Jordanian-American philologist, epigraphist, and a historian...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

Caves, the next frontier...

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 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02302-y
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia

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After years of exploring cave systems and tafoni's on the island, we discovered quite some burial sites on the island. Questions popped-...
Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Holocene vertebrate assemblages provide the first evidence for the presence of the barn owl (Tytonidae, Tyto alba) on Socotra Island (Yemen)

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Another cave-derived result shows the presence of the barn owl (Tyto albo) once flying around on the island! The article in Geobios clarifi...
Sunday, 30 October 2022

Global Forum combined with Water and Humanity Conference (Muscat October 2022)

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It was an honor to contribute to the Global Forum combined with the Water and Humanity Conference in Muscat!
Sunday, 26 September 2021

'Well of Hell': Omani cave team discover what lurks in Yemen’s strange sinkhole

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 'Well of Hell': Omani cave team discover what lurks in Yemen’s strange sinkhole Finally the Omani caves exploration team (OCET) exp...