Judith McKenzie Essay Prizes
Winners Announced!
The Heritage Partnerships Team congratulates the winners of the inaugural Judith McKenzie Essay Competition. The competition is run by the team of the Manar al-Athar Photo Archive and prizes are awarded to outstanding student essays on a site, building, inscription, mosaic, wider theme, and so on, featured on the Manar al-Athar website.
First prize: Ofer Pogorelsky (PhD candidate, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Essay title: “The Rock Inscriptions of Wadi Mukattab, Sinai”
Wadi Mukattab - inscriptions وادي مكتب - نقوش Photo Credit: Zoltan Matrahazi/Manar al-Athar
Second prize: Archie Williams (MPhil candidate, University of Oxford)
Essay title: “Constructing the Late Antique Desert”
Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi (West) (National Museum of Damascus) قصر الحير الغربي - المتحف الوطني دمشق Photo Credit: Judith McKenzie/Manar al-Athar (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
The winning essays will be published on the Manar al-Athar website.
