UNEARTHING THE PAST SINCE 1900

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1921

ASOR is formally incorporated in the U.S. and James A. Montgomery of the University of Pennsylvania is named its first President. With the imminent addition of another school in Baghdad, the organization changes its name to “American Schools of Oriental Research.”

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