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ASOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS POSTS

 

New Journal: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 77

 

ASOR 2025—Strengthening Our Foundation | Expanding Horizons—A Call to Action

 

ASOR’s 125th Anniversary Celebration

 

Friends of ASOR Cyprus Tour

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Past ASOR News, Month to Month

ASOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND NEWS POSTS

News Items

Past ASOR News, Month to Month
The locations of outreach events and mini-grant activities supported by this project. 

Cultural Heritage Initiatives

Expanding Community-led Cultural Property Protection in North Africa

From September 2021 until September 2023, ASOR led a project—with support by the U.S. Department of State—to expand community outreach for heritage protection in Libya and to extend our efforts regionally to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. This work strengthened ties between local communities and their national heritage authorities, fostered new connections between heritage practitioners across the region, and empowered community-led heritage protection efforts.

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Cultural Heritage Initiatives

Expanding Community-led Cultural Property Protection in North Africa

From September 2021 until September 2023, ASOR led a project—with support by the U.S. Department of State—to expand community outreach for heritage protection in Libya and to extend our efforts regionally to Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. This work strengthened ties between local communities and their national heritage authorities, fostered new connections between heritage practitioners across the region, and empowered community-led heritage protection efforts.

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ASOR Annual Meeting

November 19-22, 2025
Boston & Hybrid

ASOR invites members to submit poster proposals for the 2025 Poster Session. The Call for Posters deadline is August 1.

 

 

ASOR Annual Meeting

November 19-22, 2025
Boston & Hybrid

ASOR invites members to submit poster proposals for the 2025 Poster Session. The Call for Posters deadline is August 1.

 

The Ancient Near East Today : Vol. 13.8, No. 8.2

Purple Ambitions: Tel Shiqmona and the Rise of Israelite Dye Industry in the Iron Age

 

Tel Shiqmona has received little attention compared to the grand coastal cities of the ancient Phoenician coast. But the site has produced the most complete archaeological evidence for the production of purple dye in the Iron Age.

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The Ancient Near East Today: Vol. 13.8, No. 8.2

Purple Ambitions: Tel Shiqmona and the Rise of Israelite Dye Industry in the Iron Age

Tel Shiqmona has received little attention compared to the grand coastal cities of the ancient Phoenician coast. But the site has produced the most complete archaeological evidence for the production of purple dye in the Iron Age.

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Publications

Journal of Cuneiform Studies 77 Table of Contents 

The 2025 issue of Journal of Cuneiform Studies includes articles such as: A New Join to the Zalpa Text, or: How Many Homonymies Can One Text Bear?; Banqueting with the Gods: New Sources on Ritual and Cult from Old Babylonian Sippar; Shining Among the Kings of Old: The Old Babylonian Mortuary Ceremony TCL 15 8.; and more. View the Table of Contents here.

 

Publications

Journal of Cuneiform Studies 77 Table of Contents

The 2025 issue of Journal of Cuneiform Studies includes articles such as: A New Join to the Zalpa Text, or: How Many Homonymies Can One Text Bear?; Banqueting with the Gods: New Sources on Ritual and Cult from Old Babylonian Sippar; Shining Among the Kings of Old: The Old Babylonian Mortuary Ceremony TCL 15 8.; and more. View the Table of Contents here.