enThis item is free to use for research and academic purposes; please contact archives@acorjordan.org for non-watermarked images. Commercial use is granted on a case by case basis.
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enGeorge Bass is known to many in the archaeological world as the founding father of nautical archaeology. He was the director of the first archaeological expedition to entirely excavate an ancient shipwreck (Cape Gelydonia, 1960) and Bass founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) in 1973. The George Bass collection at ACOR includes photos from Jordan, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, offering rare insight into famous heritage sites over half a century ago, as well as the impressions and escapades of Bass as a young man travelling through the region, shared through his letters.
