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POSTPONED—Lecture, 16 Nov. 2024: “The Iron Age Townscape of Busayra”

16 October 2024; updated 22 October 2024 This lecture has been postponed. The new date and remote links will be provided when available. Our 2024 Fall Lecture Series concludes! About the lecture: This talk draws together past and recent research on the Iron Age townscape of Busayra, widely believed to be the administrative capital of […]

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New Essay on Insights: “ACOR Internship Experience: The National Inventory Project” by Madeleine Tripp

19 October 2024 “From August 1 to September 12, 2024, I had the fortunate opportunity to undertake an internship at the American Center of Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan. I worked with the National Cultural Heritage Property Database of The Kingdom of Jordan project, known informally as the National Inventory. While currently training to be a

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October 9 and 16, 2024—Expedition Unknown Episodes Feature Petra and ACOR!

8 October 2024; updated 10 October 2024 Petra and ACOR are featured in the two-episode 13th season premier of the Discovery Channel’s series Expedition Unknown, hosted by Josh Gates! Share in new discoveries with us on October 9th and October 16th at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on the Discovery Channel. Visit the Expedition Unknown

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NEW DATE: Lecture, 13 Oct. 2024: “How Can Large Collections of Machine-Readable Data Support Arabic as a Second/Foreign Language in the Classroom?”

24 September 2024; updated 29 September 2024 Our 2024 Fall Lecture Series continues! How Can Large Collections of Machine-Readable Data Support Arabic as a Second/Foreign Language in the Classroom? October 14, 2024, 6:00 p.m. Amman timeAmerican Center of Research, Amman, JordanDirections About the lecture: Arabic language instruction has traditionally focused on Modern Standard Arabic, but

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New Essay on Insights: “Together with ACOR: Fifty Years of Cooperation” by Zeidan Kafafi

8 September 2024 Zeidan Kafafi, professor emeritus of Yarmouk University, writes: “In the academic year 1967–1968 I enrolled as a student at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Jordan. Unfortunately, in that same period the Arab-Israeli Six Days War began on June 5, 1967. As a result of the war, in

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The Fall 2024 Lecture Series Begins with “‘Very Much Akin’: The Relationship between Jordan and Oman in the Mid-20th Century” by Richard Harrod

5 September 2024; updated 29 September 2024 Three lectures are currently on this season’s schedule. About the lecture: The relationship between Jordan and Oman goes back to the mid-1950s but is little known beyond a handful of specialists. This lecture explores the fascinating political and military history between these two polities over the course of

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Archaeology in Jordan 4 Published

Volume 4 of our biennial open-access journal Archaeology in Jordan is now available. From the introduction: The editors of Archaeology in Jordan 4 are pleased to present this dynamic collection of recent project summaries, which cover excavation and related projects during the period of January 2022 through December 2023. Together these reports reveal a vibrant

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New Essay on Insights — “Joining the 2024 Study Season at Khirbet al-Mukhayyat” by Nina Rozic

9 July 2024 “This year I was able to participate in the study season for the Khirbet al-Muhkayyat Project, along with Kathleen Macleod Kerr, a fellow undergraduate student from Wilfrid Laurier University. We were delighted to return to the dig house in Madaba where we had stayed in 2023 while completing the field-school credit for

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