The Azoria Project is a five-year excavation and continuing study of an early Greek city in east Crete, in the Greek Aegean.  The project participants form an annual staff of some 50 archaeologists, specialists, and graduate and undergraduate students—drawn from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iowa State University, and elsewhere—with an additional Greek staff of fifteen workmen and six specialists from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Center for East Crete.

Generous contributions have been made by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.  The main federal source of funding is a Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Private donations are crucial not only in establishing matching funds for federal grants, such as the NEH, but in meeting our cost-sharing budget line for the project as a whole.  The Azoria Project Fund was established in April of 2001 by the Department of Classics at UNC, in order to receive gifts from individuals, corporations and businesses, as well as private foundations, with the purpose of providing support for the research objectives of the Azoria Project.  Funds from the trust are expended to meet the annual operating budget of the project, providing excavation equipment and supplies, and supporting students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While specific and targeted contributions are welcome, unspecified donations will be expended as needed by the project.

If you would like to make a gift to the Azoria Project Fund directly on line with a credit card, please click on the UNC Development Office web page (http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/gift/) and designate your gift for "Other" and write in "Azoria Project Fund."  The Development Office will notify the Department of Classics and the Azoria Project director of the amount and category of the gift.
 

Checks should be payable to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, indicating one's intention to make the contribution to the Azoria Project Fund in the lower left corner of the check.  All contributions for the project are tax deductible.  Donations and inquires should be mailed to:
 

Professor Donald C. Haggis
Director, The Azoria Project
Department of Classics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
212 Murphey Hall, CB# 3145
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3145

Inquires may be addressed to Professor Haggis at dchaggis@email.unc.edu, or by telephone (919-962-7640).