Arthur DE GRAAUW

Présentation

Arthur de Graauw is a French/Dutch coastal engineer employed by a French Consulting firm, SOGREAH (now ARTELIA) until the end of 2015.His main achievements are modelling and design of the sea bed protections and of the foundation layers of the Oosterschelde Storm Surge Barrier (1980), the reconstruction of Sogreah’s Hydraulics Lab (1987), the initial project for offshore extension of Beirut Central District (1991), the extension of Port Revel (2009), the Catalogue of ancient ports (since 2011), the discovery of the southern Phoenician port of Tyre (2019).He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1976 in civil engineering of coastal structures and areas. He was employed by Delft Hydraulics Laboratory (now DELTARES) from 1976 to 1983 before joining SOGREAH. He used many hydraulic scale models and mathematical models in his work. He worked on numerous projects related to coastal erosion, industrial ports and marinas in the Mediterranean area including Lebanon, Gaza, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and France.From 2002 to 2015, he managed the Port Revel ship handling training centre using manned models where maritime pilots from all over the world come for training. This led him to work with the Panama Canal extension.He has been active on ancient ports since 1998 and created a new catalogue of ancient ports encompassing nearly 6000 places. He is the webmaster of www.AncientPortsAntiques.com focusing on many technical aspects of ancient ports. He became a Research Associate at Lyon 2 University in 2021.

Publications

Article de blog scientifique (3)

Reconstruction of the ancient Tigris-Euphrates Delta Arthur de Graauw 2025, ⟨10.58079/14ptg⟩ Article de blog scientifique hal-05270431v1
Les brise-lames portuaires antiques Arthur de Graauw 2023, ⟨10.58079/bd2t⟩ Article de blog scientifique hal-05129221v1
Le port antique de Caesarea Maritima - Sebastos Arthur de Graauw,Gilles Brocard 2022, ⟨10.58079/bd1x⟩ Article de blog scientifique hal-05127959v1

Communication dans un congrès (3)

Geomorphology of the Tyre tombolo: implications for the location of ancient harbours Arthur de Graauw,Gilles Brocard,Jean-Philippe Goiran 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE), Jun 2025, Lyon, France Communication dans un congrès hal-05466284v1
Portus (Italie) : Dernières avancées scientifiques pour l'étude des structures portuaires et des bassins Jean-Philippe Goiran,Jorge Cocquyt,Stoil Chapkanski,Arthur de Graauw,Evelyne Bukowieckiet al. Les paysages portuaires: Espaces patrimoniaux, entre réel et imaginaire, Université de Perpignan, Nov 2023, Perpignan, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04280771v1
Fish tanks and past relative sea-level variations in Tyre, Lebanon Jean-Philippe Goiran,Stoil Chapkanski,Emmanuelle Régagnon,Gilles Brocard,Arthur de Graauw The Roman Fish tanks of the Mediterranean: recent interpretations for the sea level changes during the last 2000 years, Marco Anzidei; Flavio Enei; Eleni Kolaiti; Kurt Lambeck, Sep 2022, Santa Severa, Italy Communication dans un congrès halshs-03787267v1

Article dans une revue (6)

Reconstructing the plurisecular trajectory of an exemplary hybrid urban delta (Tarragona-Francolí system, Spain): Towards the end of a delta? Ferréol Salomon,Patricia Terrado Ortuño,Pierre-Alexis Herrault,Kenji Fujiki,Olivier Financeet al. Geomorphology, 2024, 462, pp.109344. ⟨10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109344⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04841842v1
Double tombolo formation by regressive barrier widening and landside submergence: The case of Orbetello, Italy Gilles Brocard,Jean-Philippe Goiran,Alessandro Conforti,Frank Preusser,Quentin Vitaleet al. Marine Geology, 2024, pp.107415. ⟨10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107415⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04745189v1
Ancient Port Structures. Parallels between the ancient and the modern Arthur de Graauw Méditerranée : revue géographique des pays méditerranéens, 2022, pp.12715. ⟨10.4000/mediterranee.12715⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05127901v1
Evolution of Sea Level at Tyre During Antiquity Jean-Philippe Goiran,Gilles Brocard,Arthur de Graauw,Hany Kahwagi-Janho,Stoil Chapkanski BAAL - Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, 2021, 21, pp.305-317 Article dans une revue hal-04242036v1
Infrared spectroscopic investigations of the Northern Mole of Portus, the Ancient harbour of Rome. Insights for stratigraphy and provenance of raw materials for construction Stoil Chapkanski,Jean-Philippe Goiran,Carlo Rosa,Stephen Kay,Arthur de Graauwet al. Mediterranean archaeology and archaeometry journal, 2021, ⟨10.5281/zenodo.5057562⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03337663v1
La formation à la manœuvre des navires à Port Revel Arthur de Graauw La Revue maritime, 2004, 470, pp.48-54 Article dans une revue hal-05101949v1