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Dear Colleagues and Friends: We regret to inform you that ACOR, including its library, will be closed to the public effective 2pm, March 14th, until otherwise noted. Such action is motivated by advice from various U.S. institutions, precedent by other overseas research units, and our general concern regarding frequent foreign arrivals to our facility. The

Tuesday March 10, 2020, 6pm at ACOR Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Ancient sites which have recently come to light on the Dead Sea littoral reveal what life was like for the average Nabataean some two thousand years ago. Ancient texts also refer to these communities and the close relations which they had with

#WikiGap #20kfor2020 #womeninarchaeology #Jordanianheritage On Saturday, February 1st, from 9:30-3:30, the ACOR Library will host a Jordanian Heritage Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon to support the writing, editing, and translating of Wikipedia articles about Jordanian tangible and intangible heritage. This event is run in partnership with the Jordan Open Source Association and Wikimedia Levant. The edit-a-thon will be open

Please note we are intending to offer simultaneous translation into Arabic at this event. About the Lecture: The ACOR Photo Archive contains rich collections of tens of thousands of photographs, but its reach also extends far beyond the images themselves. ACOR’s archival collections reflect the seismic shifts that have occurred in the region over the

لتصفح المعلومات باللغة العربية هنا January 2020 ACOR Press Release Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman Named New Director of American Center of Oriental Research The Board of Trustees of the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman as the next Director of ACOR.

ACOR Staff and Affiliates at the ASOR Annual Meeting: Presentations, Honors, and Updates From Nov. 21–23, 2019, the ASOR Annual Meeting (ASOR: The American Schools of Oriental Research) took place in San Diego, CA, and dozens of current and former ACOR affiliates contributed to the event. This includes: ACOR Associate Director John (Jack) Green presented

Archaeology in Jordan (AIJ) is a new, biannual open access (OA) newsletter published online by ACOR aimed at raising scholarly awareness of archaeological and cultural resource management projects being carried out in Jordan and to make this information accessible to a wider audience. ACOR seeks submissions for the 2018 and 2019 seasons with a deadline of

ACOR Proudly Presents: Tuesday, December 10, 6pm at ACOR Reception to follow About the Lecture: In the first centuries AD, everybody in the area of Jordan south of the Wadi Mujib were devotees of some Nabataean or Roman religion or another. Christians first appear in the early fourth century and grew in numbers as the

To follow up or participate in this ongoing project, please join the associated Facebook group Open Jordanian Heritage or send us a message.  On Tuesday, October 7 from 10am–2pm, ACOR will be co-hosting a Wikipedia “Edit-a-thon” in partnership with Wikimedia Levant. Participants will first be trained in how to write and edit Wikipedia articles; then, using