Second training part of the mission and at the same time second joint excavation season has been realized in summer 2005 in northern Slovakia where 4 Kuwaiti colleagues took part at excavation and survey of Bronze and Iron Age and Migration Period sites in Liptov region. Main site of interest was long term excavated site at Liptovská Mara (district Liptovský Mikuláš) going back to Iron Age and Early Roman Period and then survey and geodetic measurement of the Bronze and Iron age and Migration Period settlement and burial area between Liptovský Trnovec and Liptovské Matiašovce (district Liptovský Mikuláš) and Iron Age and Migration period hillfort nearby Lazisko village (district Liptovský Mikuláš). Site management (at Liptovská Mara), geodetic measurement, 3D-modelling and introduction to GIS were the main points of this training season in Slovakia.

Excavation in Slovakia has been led by PhDr. Karol Pieta, DrSc. as scientific and Lucia Benediková, M.A. as field director.

Following members of KSAM participated at the research in Slovakia:

• Shehab A. H. Shehab
  Director of museums and antiquities of NCCAL, founder of the KSAM project
• Hamed Al-Mutairi
• Ahmad Al-Shemari
• Jasim Al-Shemaly
• Khaled Salem
• Martin Bartík
• Branislav Kovár, M.A.
• Jana Stehlíková, B.A.
• Bohuslav Šebesta
• Ján Haruštiak, B.A.

Excavation has been visited by following members of KSAM project:

• Mária Hajnalová, PhD.
• Zora Miklíková, M.A.
• Tereza Belanová, M.A.
• Svorad Štolc, M.A.
• Jozef Ďuriš, M.A.

From the press

• SME, August 5 2005: Archeológov z Kuwaitu zaujal keltský Havránok.
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• Arab Times, August 24 2005: Kuwaitis have a field-day in Slovakia. Dig finds Iron, Bronze Ages. 
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• 2005: Kuwaiti archaeological team ends Slovakia visit.
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