ASOR moves its headquarters from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to Boston University.

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.