Dissertation
- At the Transition from Late Antiquity to Islam - Resafa in Syria – Cult Site and Center of Power in Relation to Landscape
As a “doctoral Tandem” Brian Beckers and Christoph Konrad combined archaeological, geoarchaeological and geophysical data obtained in their research to reconstruct the historical water management system and the palaeoenvironmental development in the Resafa area.
Third-party Funded Project
- Resafa – Rusafat Hisham. The residence of Caliph Hisham b. Abd al-Malik (rgn. 724 – 743 AD)
Focus of this project was on the structure of the residence, on some palaces and neighbouring buildings, on the infrastructure as well as on questions concerning the water-management and the historic land-use of the archaeological site Resafa in North-Syria.