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2026 Fieldwork Opportunities

Team members at Çadır Höyük, Turkey.

Are you a student or volunteer looking to join an ASOR-affiliated project for fieldwork? The projects below all have fieldwork planned for 2026. Check out the project websites to find the one that is right for you.

Once you’ve found a project, we encourage you to apply for a 2026 Scholarship for Fieldwork Participation. These scholarships are $2,000 and support your travel and participation on an ASOR-afilliated project.

If you’re a project director or specialist on an ASOR-affiliated project, you are invited to apply for 2026 Project Grants. Project grants vary from $2,500 to $5,000. If you’d like your project listed below, please email programs@asor.org.

The deadline for both Fieldwork Scholarships and Project Grants is February 23, 2026.

Note: while some projects may be conducting fieldwork in 2026, not all of them are taking students or new team members. Please check with the project director and staff. The full list of ASOR-affiliated projects can be found here. 

Cyprus

  • Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project 
  • Kissonerga-Skalia Excavation
  • Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project
  • Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project: Vigla
Digging in the trench
Gabrielle Puckett excavating with the Makounta-Voules Project in 2025.

Egypt

  • Deir el-Ballas Expedition
  • Egyptian–Italian Mission at West Aswan
  • The Ramesses III (KV11) Publication and Conservation Project
  • Tomb of Thutmose IV (KV43) Research Project
  • Wadi el-Hudi Expedition
Figure 2: The EIMAWA team
Lorenzo Guardiano and the 2024 Egyptian Italian Mission at West Aswan team.

Georgia

  • Gadachrili Gora Regional Archeological Project Expedition
Syeda Sukena Zehra working with the Gadachrili Gora Regional Archaeological Project Expedition in Georgia.

Greece

  • The Athenian Agora Excavations
Hannah Borotsik laying out tile from the Athenian Agora excavations. Photo  by James Razumoff.
Hannah Borotsik laying out tile from the Athenian Agora excavations. Photo by James Razumoff.

Iraq

  • Gird-I Matrab (2005 fieldwork summary)
  • Kurd Qaburstan Project
  • Lagash Archaeological Project
  • ReLand Resurfacing Landscapes: Mosul Dam Archaeological Project 
  • Rural Landscapes of Imperial Iron Age Mesopotamia
Anna Taibi recording a looting pit with the ReLand Project in 2025.
Anna Taibi recording a looting pit with the ReLand Project in 2025.

Israel

  • Caesarea Coastal Archaeological Project
  • Hazor Lower City Excavations
  • Hippos (Sussita) Excavation Project
  • Khirbet Beit Loya
  • Lautenschläger-Azekah Expedition
  • Jezreel Valley Regional Project: Legio
  • Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations
  • Tel Abel Beth Maacah Archaeological Project
Juan Camilo Bonilla Hurtado working with the Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations.
Juan Camilo Bonilla Hurtado working with the Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations.

Italy

  • Casa della Regina Carolina Project at Pompeii
  • Mozia/Motya, Sicily 
Helen Wong conducting ground-penetrating radar survey at Motya, Sicily.
Helen Wong conducting ground-penetrating radar survey at Motya, Sicily.

Jordan

  • Balu’a Regional Archaeological Project
  • Kites in Context
  • Landscapes of the Dead: Fifa
  • Tall Hisban
Megan Nishida working with the Kites in Context team in Jordan.
Megan Nishida working with the Kites in Context team in Jordan.

Spain

  • Menorca Archaeological Project
The team during our Open Doors Day for the public. Photo credit A. Smith
Menorca Archaeological Project team at Torre d'en Galmes in 2024. Photo credit A. Smith

Turkey

  • Phoenix Archaeological Project
  • Tayinat Archaeological Project
  • Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations
  • Yalburt Yaylası Archaeological Landscape Research Project
Lauren Cook and Zeynep Türker, holding a cuneiform tablet at Alalakh/Tell Atchana.
Lauren Cook and Zeynep Türker, holding a cuneiform tablet at Alalakh/Tell Atchana.
Talia Neelis and team members at Kissonerga-Skalia, Cyprus in 2025.

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