UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

Fieldwork Report: Christos Theodorou

Ash the World Turns or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Heat in a Bronze Age Oven: Excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia, Cyprus Christos Theodorou, 2024 Meyers/Wright Fieldwork Scholarship […]

Message from ASOR’s Board Chair

Message from ASOR’s Board Chair Dear ASOR friends: In about 6 weeks, we will conclude another successful ASOR fiscal year (June 30). This year, by working together, we have made […]

Fieldwork Report: Ofelia Tychon

Photo of Ofelia Tychon on the RLIIM projec.

Getting to Know Rural Assyrians Ofelia Tychon, 2024 Katherine Barton Platt Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  This spring, I got a chance to be part of the excavation team for the Rural […]

2025 Grant & Fellowship Awardees

2025 PROJECT GRANT AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AWARDEES Grants for Archaeological Projects: $61,650 awarded Stevan B. Dana Project Grants: $15,000 awarded Silvia Amicone (University of Tübingen) Rediscovering Ancient Clay Landscapes: Geological […]

New ASOR-Affiliated Projects 2025

Aerial view of Humayma. Photo by Jane Taylor

New ASOR-Affiliated Projects: May 2025 Currently, 152 projects are affiliated with ASOR. This includes 122 field projects and 30 publication projects. Twelve new projects have received ASOR affiliation since last […]

Fieldwork Report: Rubar Yavuz

Tell Tayinat 2024: A Season in the Shadow of an Earthquake Rubar Yavuz, 2024 Eric and Carol Meyers Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient Tell Tayinat is a mound located 18 km west […]

Fieldwork Report: Brady Hill

Posing with one of the washed pottery baskets. After being cleaned by the Kurdish students on the project team, it was my daily task to sort through these baskets of pottery, counting each sherd and keeping those that were diagnostic.

Summer Days in Bazyan – My Involvement in the Kani Shaie Archaeological Project Brady Hill, 2024 G. Ernest Wright Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient  As a budding archaeologist researching ancient Mesopotamia, saying […]

AASOR 78: Ethics in Archaeological Practice

Annual of ASOR 78: Ethics in Archaeological Practice Ethics in Archaeological Practice ed. by Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski with articles from  Sarah Kielt Costello, Sarah Lepinski, Beth Alpert […]

Fieldwork Report: Riley Stockton

Digging Dirt in Cyprus Riley Stockton, 2024 P.E. MacAllister Fieldwork Scholarship Recipient This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in the Vigla Archaeological Field School, a sub-project of the […]

March Fellowship Madness 2025 — In Our 125th Year!

excavating at Tell el-Hesi

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