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Come to Petra, Experience the Exhibition

Leave a Comment / General, TWLCRM / September 3, 2016
Tourists interact with the exhibition at the new Petra Visitors’ Center, which began greeting visitors to the site in October 2014. Photo by Allison Mickel. It’s easy to be awed by Petra’s spectacular monuments, by the immense and elaborate buildings carved from the variegated sandstone. It’s easy to feel dwarfed while marveling at the immensity …

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A Passion for Petra’s Archaeology – An Interview with TWLCRM Alum Ahmad Hasanat

Leave a Comment / TWLCRM / August 28, 2016
Former TWLCRM team member Ahmad Hasanat Ahmad Hasanat isn’t one for making career choices based on movies. “My main motivation wasn’t Indiana Jones,” he said, discussing his professional origin story over cups of fresh brewed tea, steaming against Petra’s cold January air. Instead, Hasanat’s reason for becoming an archaeologist was simple:  “I fell in love …

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TWLCRM Initiative Earns Top Honor

Leave a Comment / TWLCRM / December 13, 2016

ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative  received the Archaeological Institute of America’s 2015 award for Best Practices in Site Preservation in January of this year. Christopher Tuttle, Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers and former Associate Director of ACOR, received the award on behalf of the …

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