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Hours and Overview

Our Amman center and Library operate 8:00AM – 4:00PM (Ramadan hours are 9:00AM – 4:00PM), Saturday through Thursday. The facilities are closed on Fridays. Jordan is in the Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) zone and no longer observes an annual time change.

For more information about resources available to visitors of the Library and Archive, please click here. To learn about rates and resources for guests of our residence, please click here.

The staff support the administrative needs of the center and provides advice, direction, and general guidance. We do recommend that visitors to Jordan conduct their own research before arriving; should you have any questions about informational resources, please contact ACOR or the Library for assistance. For those interested in attending public events at ACOR, we recommend you sign up for our Events in Amman e-newsletter.

Directions

For recommendations on how to get to the Center, please refer to the following map.  We recommend that those traveling by car allow for extra time to get here, beyond what any map application suggests.

Mail via ACOR

U.S. stamps are available for purchase in the ACOR office and mail sent from Jordan can be posted for you. Mail to the USA can go via our pouch to the US office in Alexandria, VA, but there can be delays.

The ACOR mailing address used for all mail is:

The American Center of Research
P.O. Box 2470
Amman 11181 Jordan

For UPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc., use this address and include the PHONE NUMBER given here on the label.

8 Rashad Al Abadle Tla’a Ali
Amman 11181 Jordan
Phone: 962-6-534-6117
Fax: 962-6-534-4181

Local delivery offices of international couriers deliver to ACOR, but must have the ACOR phone number on the label. Street addresses are not always recognized in Jordan.

Residents and excavators/students can have mail delivered to ACOR at the above address, but they must have their name in the top line and c/o ACOR. If there is a major project that they are working on, include that project name/excavation name on the face of the envelope.

Air Mail to/from Jordan and the U.S. takes from 5 days to two weeks, or more.  “Overnight” packages via courier services take from 3-7 days.

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