Petra’s Temple of the Winged Lions

Dr. Pauline Piraud-Fournet is an archaeologist, architect, and associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East.  In 2019, she was the recipient of a six month TWL Publication Fellowship at ACOR. In 2016, she received her Ph.D. in Archaeology on the topic of ‘the city of Bosra’ (Southern Syria) in Late Antiquity from… Read more The post Reviewing the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL), Petra: Digging through Forty Years of Archives appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

ACOR cannot thrive without the help of great interns – they are often current university students and recent graduates from the U.S. and Jordan. Safa’ Joudeh and Libby Trowbridge worked together as a great intern team to help document a large number of objects excavated and sifted from the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL), a… Read more The post An Experience for All: The Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

Jack Green, PhD, Associate Director of ACOR and Project Director of the Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative writes about the recent efforts in site presentation and interpretation at the Temple of the Winged Lions. The Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) in the World Heritage Site of Petra is a… Read more The post Signing the Way at the Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

The first time I came to Petra, it was as a wide-eyed tourist; I walked through the Siq and followed the winding path to the Treasury, marveling at the banded colors in the rock and the intricate carvings that made this place so special. The second time I came to Petra, it was through the… Read more The post The Temple of the Winged Lions: Preserving and Presenting History appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

تقرير الزميل علي الاعرج عن مشروع من مشاريع USAID في الأردن، استدامة الارث الثقافي The post TWLCRM: Ro’ya Television, Donya ya Donya (interview with team member Eman Abdessalam) appeared first on ACOR Jordan.