CASOR is established as a vehicle for ASOR members and friends in Canada to be able to participate in raising fund support for the organization. The Scheuer Medal was introduced […]

William G. Dever, former director of the AIAR in Jerusalem, became ASOR’s Second Vice President for Archaeological Policy, and expanded ASOR-affiliated projects through a program that pursued [...]

Establishment of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) was led by Elizabeth Moynihan, who would become ASOR’s first chair of the board of trustees (1984-1986). Image: ASOR [...]

The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia was formally established. Image:  The CAARI building, with its flowering “Bottle Brush” tree in the foreground, and the [...]

ASOR starts its sponsorship of a series of excavations, financed with U.S. federal funds, at Punic and Roman Carthage. ASOR sponsors a new center nearby, the Carthage Research Institute, as […]

A new center is created in Amman, Jordan, to allow scholars to continue working on both sides of the Jordan River. The center is incorporated under the named the American […]

The school in Jerusalem, which was in peril of being sold amid political and military tensions in the city, is determined as unsold as the buyer’s check to Annual Director […]

The Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts are brought to ASOR for identification and authentication. Image: Dead Sea Scrolls research was to occupy many scholars at the Jerusalem School through to the […]

Journal of Cuneiform Studies is founded by Director Albrecht Goetze.

The Biblical Archaeologist was inaugurated by G.E. Wright as its editor. Its first editorial board consisted of W.F. Albright (Johns Hopkins), Millar Burrows (Yale), and E.A. Speiser (University [...]