1906
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.
1969
The Baghdad School closes due to political tensions and becomes the Committee on Mesopotamian Civilization.
1958
ASOR scholars were involved in the long-term excavation at Sardis, in western Türkiye.
1956
During the Suez conflict in 1956, staff were evacuated from the Jerusalem School but returned shortly thereafter.
1923
ASOR’s second center, the Baghdad School, is founded.
1919
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 in subjects relating to […]
2023
Maarav joins the journals program of the University of Chicago Press and ASOR.
1998
The Biblical Archaeologist is renamed Near Eastern Archaeology to reflect the publication’s broader geographic, chronological, and intellectual scope.
2016
ASOR adopts a new logo, the Caananite storage jar, which was chosen as the organization is representative of a wide range of locations.
2020
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.