UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900
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Cultural Heritage Initiatives
Through support from the U.S. Department of State, ASOR partnered with Libya’s Department of Antiquities to document and repair flood damage at the archaeological sites of Cyrene, Ptolemais, and Tocra in eastern Libya. These locally led projects reflect ASOR’s commitment to supporting Libyan efforts to protect their heritage from natural disasters.
November 18-21, 2026
Chicago & Hybrid
The Call for Posters is now open till August 1. Posters are an ideal format for presenting archaeological projects in general; a technical aspect of your project; a spectacular find from the field season; or complex graphic and/or quantitative data.
The Ancient Near East Today: Vol. 14, No. 6.1
Unlike the great territorial states of the Bronze Age, Byblos did not build an empire. Its influence rested on something less visible but equally effective: its position within networks.
Publications
The May 2026 issue of BASOR includes articles such as: Preservation through Transformation: Identifying Late Roman Hula Valley Sites in Panias’s Diocletianic Boundary Stones; The Life and Afterlife of the Palace of Herod Antipas in Tiberias; Baʾude, a World Heritage Site in Northern Syria from the Early Byzantine Era: A Study of the Residential Buildings and Their State of Preservation; ʿEn Ḥaẓeva in the Arabah Valley: A “Faynanite” Signature in Late Iron Age I–Early Iron Age IIA Ceramic Assemblages; and more.
