In 1906, under Annual Director Benjamin Bacon, the school’s headquarters were moved outside the Old City to 6 Ethiopia Street. Image: Doorway of house at 6 Ethiopia Street, Jaffa.

The Baghdad School closes due to political tensions and becomes the Committee on Mesopotamian Civilization.

ASOR scholars were involved in the long-term excavation at Sardis, in western Türkiye.

During the Suez conflict in 1956, staff were evacuated from the Jerusalem School but returned shortly thereafter.

ASOR’s second center, the Baghdad School, is founded.

ASOR reopened in Jerusalem and published the first volume of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR); an interdisciplinary English-language forum for scholars worldwide [...]

Maarav joins the journals program of the University of Chicago Press and ASOR.

The Biblical Archaeologist is renamed Near Eastern Archaeology to reflect the publication’s broader geographic, chronological, and intellectual scope.

ASOR adopts a new logo, the Caananite storage jar, which was chosen as the organization is representative of a wide range of locations.

ASOR’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved changing the organization’s name to the American Society of Overseas Research at its regular winter meeting on December 16, 2020.