Nelson Glueck succeeds Millar Burrows as Annual Director of ASOR. Image: Millar Burrows with ASOR vehicle in Jerusalem, July 1936.

Seasons start at Tell Beit Mirsim, chosen by Albright and senior fellow Melvin Grove Kyle, as an initially modest excavation project that turned into one of the most significant excavations […]

Completion of the Annual Professor and main building of a new ASOR facility, later named the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, that would house 10 rooms for students and […]

ASOR adopts the Egyptian ankh hieroglyph, the symbol of life, containing within it the Babylonian dinger, the eight-pointed star formed by four cuneiform wedges, signifying deity.

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, […]

William Foxwell Albright was appointed ASOR’s first long-term director in Jerusalem. Image: The Jerusalem property in 1920 on which the ASOR School was later constructed.

Torrey begins ASOR’s first archaeological field work project with the excavation of tombs at Sidon.

Under the name the “American School of Oriental Study and Research in Palestine,” the organization was born. ASOR’s first presence overseas is established in 1900 in Jerusalem, with Charles C. [...]

The Society for Biblical Literature (SBL), along with the American Oriental Society (AOS) and the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), endorse a proposal to establish a school in Palestine [...]