The Petra Church

by Sarah Islam For historians of the Middle East, medieval documents and manuscripts are integral resources to better understand the social and intellectual milieu of their objects of study. Islamic manuscript archives and repositories are often quite challenging to access; an even greater challenge is the ability to read and analyze the documents themselves. For… Read more The post Dating Fatimid and Ayyubid Manuscript Fragments through Handwriting and Material Analysis appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

by Dima Nafez Amin Harb My name is Dima Nafez Amin Harb, and I am a cultural resources management and conservation graduate from the University of Jordan, the valedictorian of my major. Throughout my education, my professors would always recommend several organizations that could assist us with our study, and the American Center of Research… Read more The post ACOR Internship Experience: In the Library with Rare Books and Maps appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

by Madeleine Tripp 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… Read more The post ACOR Internship Experience: The National Inventory Project appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

by Zeidan Kafafi, Professor Emeritus, Yarmouk University The Beginning 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 1968 the… Read more The post Together with ACOR: Fifty Years of Cooperation appeared first on ACOR Jordan.

by Nina Rozic 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… Read more The post Joining the 2024 Study Season at Khirbet al-Mukhayyat appeared first on ACOR Jordan.