Explore Our Projects & Fieldwork Opportunities in Archaeology and Historic Preservation in 2025

WHY BALKAN HERITAGE FIELD SCHOOL   

  • The field schools are affiliated with ongoing archaeological or historic preservation projects
  • Supervision and instruction from professionals in the field
  • Exciting field experience in a safe environment
  • Open to all who are ready to learn, discover and travel
  • Universitiy credit hours available for students

VARIETY OF TOPICS & PROJECTS

  • Archaeological digs
  • Conservation of artifacts and sites
  • Computational photography & Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
  • Photogrammetry & GIS & Archaeometry

VARIETY OF SITES & PERIODS    

  • Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlements & tells
  • Ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique cities & sites
  • Early Christian & Byzantine, medieval and postmedieval churches & monasteries

VARIETY OF ARTIFACTS & MONUMENTS   

  • Ancient Greek pottery
  • Roman pottery, glassware, mosaics and wall-paintings
  • Historical textile, metal and paper
  • Byzantine and medieval frescoes
  • Epigraphic monuments
IFR
Underwater Archaeology in the Black Sea
Bulgaria

Season dates: 24 May - 14 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 4599 EUR/ approx. 4996 USD   

In collaboration with: Institute for Field Research

CFS
Workshop for Conservation of Paper
Greece

Season dates: 1 - 14 June 2025

Cost starting from: 2949 EUR/ approx. 3208 USD

Workshop for Conservation of Textile
Greece

Season dates: 25 - 7 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 2949 EUR/ approx. 3204 USD

Workshop for Conservation of Metal
Greece

Season dates: 8 June - 21 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 2949 EUR/ approx. 3204 USD

Workshops for Conservation of Metal, Paper and Textiles
Greece

Season dates: 25 May - 15 June, 2025  

Cost starting from: 3499 EUR/ approx. 3800 USD

Archaeology of Apollonia Pontica
Bulgaria

Season dates:  1 - 28 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 3499 EUR/ approx. 3800 USD

Workshop for Conservation of Ancient Greek Pottery
Bulgaria

Season dates: 7 - 22 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 2399 EUR/ approx. 2606 USD

Workshop for Conservation of Roman Glass
Bulgaria

Season dates: 22 June - 5 July, 2025

Cost starting from: 2399 EUR/ approx. 2606 USD

IFR
Stobi (The Capital City of Macedonia Secunda) Excavation
North Macedonia

+ Optional tour of Pella and Vergina, Greece 

   

Season dates: 7 June - 6 July, 2025

Cost starting from: 3099 EUR/ approx. 3370 USD   

In collaboration with: Institute for Field Research

IFR
Workshops for Conservation of Roman Pottery
North Macedonia

   

Season dates: 12 - 26 July, 2025

Cost starting from: 2349 EUR/ approx. 2349 USD   

In collaboration with: Institute for Field Research

IFR
Tell Yunatsite Excavations – Seeking Europe's First Civilization
Bulgaria

Season dates: 12 July - 9 August, 2025

Cost starting from: 1949 EUR/ approx. 2118 USD

In collaboration with: Institute for Field Research

IFR
Ancient Greeks in the Land of Dionysos - Excavation of Emporion Pistiros
Bulgaria

Season dates: 26 July - 22 August, 2025

Cost starting from: 3999 EUR/ approx. 3999 USD   

In collaboration with: Institute for Field Research

''Fresco-Hunting'' Photo Research Expedition to Medieval Balkan Churches
Bulgaria, Serbia

Season dates: 24 May - 7 June, 2025

Cost starting from: 1999 EUR/approx. 2120 USD

 

Birth of Europe - Excavations at the Neolithic site of Amzabegovo
North Macedonia

Session dates: 5 - 26 July, 2025   

Cost starting from: 2899 EUR/ approx. 3080 USD

Photogrammetry Workshop
Bulgaria

Season dates: coming soon

Cost starting from: 1499 EUR/ approx. 1499 USD   

Exploring the land of the Levantines: History and Archaeology of Medieval Chios.
Greece

Season dates: coming soon

Cost: 2050 EUR/approx. 2200 USD

Workshop for Physicochemical Analysis of Metal Objects and Ceramics
Greece

Season dates: coming soon

Cost starting from: 999 EUR/approx.1299 USD