Strata: New Online Access to Records from British Mandate Palestine

Digitization projects on both sides of the Atlantic are bringing to life old photographs and forgotten letters from early-20th-century Palestine.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has undertaken an effort to make digital scans of the entire British Mandate Antiquities Department archive—a collection of some 40,000 documents, including maps, correspondence between archaeologists, early excavation permits and site photos. The $400,000 project is part of a national heritage preservation program in the prime minister’s office.