It is a busy and exciting time of year for many ASOR-affiliated projects. Below are some links to updates and stories from the field on social media. Click to read the latest edge-of-the-trowel news from the field. Survey, excavation, processing artifacts, conservation, visiting other sites, talking to the public, hosting outreach events—these accounts offer a slice-of-life picture of archaeology in action.

Aayush Umesh, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers fieldwork scholarship recipient, and team members excavating at Tall Hisban, Jordan.

• Egyptian Italian Mission at West Aswan (Egypt) Excavation of tombs revealing the lives of people in the border town of Aswan.
• Gird-i Matrab Archaeological Project (Iraq) Investigation of a multi-mound site in the Erbil Plain.
• Kurd Qaburstan Archaeological Project (Iraq) Middle Bronze Age city excavations in the Erbil Plain plus a workshop on cuneiform tablet conservation.
• Menorca Archaeological Project (Spain) Excavations of a medieval Islamic domestic complex plus a conference on Islamic archaeology.
• Mozia: University of Palermo Archaeological Mission (Italy) Excavation and geophysical survey of a Punic settlement on an island off the coast of Sicily.
• Phoenix Archaeological Project (Turkey) Survey of the ancient site of Phoenix in the Marmaris region.
• Polatlı Landscape Archaeology and Survey Project (Turkey) Survey project investigating the imperial strategies of the Hittite Empire, as well as the response of the local populations to Hittite imperialism
• Syedra Antik Kenti (Turkey) Bioarchaeology of Syedra: reconstructing lived experiences through human skeletal remains at Syedra with a focus on Roman and Byzantine periods.
• Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Turkey) Excavation and conservation of a Late Bronze Age palace and city.
• Tell Azekah Excavations (Israel) Excavation of monumental remains of temples, palaces, and fortification systems in the Judean Lowlands.
• Tell Timai (Egypt) Research and conservation of the ancient Thmuis, a Greco-Roman city in the Nile Delta.
• Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project (Turkey) Excavation of a Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Hellenistic urban center in the Konya Plain.

Projects with Upcoming Fieldwork

• Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraq): Excavation of a settlement in the Baizan Valley, occupied from the 4th millennium BCE through the Islamic periods.
• ReLand Project: Resurfacing Landscapes (Iraq) Mosul Dam archaeological project of University of Palermo and Duhok Directorate of Antiquities.

Stay tuned from more news from students and researchers later this summer and fall both on the ASOR website and social media.