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ASOR is a non-profit organization that supports & encourages the study of the history & cultures of the Near East and wider Mediterranean world.

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Members, submit your poster proposals for the 2026 Poster Session during the ASOR Annual Meeting, Nov. 18–21, in Chicago & online. Poster abstracts of 250 words may be submitted by Aug. 1. Please read the 2026 Call for Posters to learn more: https://t.co/bL6MiMuqeD

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ASOR is pleased to offer 10 Student Travel grants of $250 each for the 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago this November. Students must be enrolled at an ASOR Institutional Member School to qualify for these grants. Applications are open until August 24, 2026: https://t.co/DPV6P09Czi

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Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a small, bronze statuette of a horse from Greece, ca. 750–730 BCE. It was likely created as a devotional gift to a god, with horses being a symbol of wealth at the time. Credit: Art Institute of Chicago. 2016.193.
#Archaeology #Greece #Horses

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📸 : Punic inscription mentioning a common citizen of the People’s Assembly of Carthage, c. 4th-2nd centuries BCE. © Brett Kaufman

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From Aristotle to John Adams, great minds of government have revered Carthaginian democracy as the purest expression of a people’s will. What impact did it have in the development of Greek institutions of democracy? Read the latest ANE Today here: https://t.co/uqnKPkFCMf

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Amiella Musser, a student at Dickinson College, received a 2025 Stevan B. Dana Fieldwork Scholarship to excavate at Tel Azekah. Amiella participated in the excavation potentially connected to Tel Azekah’s ancient water system. Read her fieldwork report https://t.co/BODHE3bWFH

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We hope you enjoyed the long holiday weekend! Starting this Friday, May 29th, ASOR staff will be holding summer hours until Labor Day, September 7th. If you need to call the office, please do so during normal business hours Monday–Thursday or before 12:30pm EDT on Fridays.

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Friends of ASOR sincerely thanks all of our fantastic webinar speakers and everyone who attended a webinar during the 2025-2026 season. Check our webinars page later this year for updates about 2026-2027 webinars, and we hope that you will join us next season!

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ASOR’s Committee on Publications announces a call for Editor(s) of the Bulletin of ASOR (BASOR). The new Editor(s) will serve a 3-year term starting January 2027. All applications received by September 1, 2026 will receive full consideration. Learn more at:https://t.co/Z1zaYSQFBd

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Want to read more about the ISAC Museum Special Exhibition "A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia"? You can explore more about the exhibition in the recent online article for Ancient Near East Today by the curator of the special exhibition, Marc Maillot

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Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a fragmentary wall fresco from Teleilat Ghassul, ca. 4000 BCE (Late Chalcolithic). Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem. Photo by Marsupium, CC by-SA 4.0.
#Archaeology #Fresco #Jordan #Chalcolithic

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In our newest ANE Today article, Marc Maillot, Chief Curator at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, presents a new exhibit—A Bestiary of Ancient Nubia. Read more here: https://t.co/QZCNUJVaIe
#Nubia #Animals #Art
📸: Worcester Art Museum, 1922.145.

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From behind-the-scenes museum tours to up-close encounters with artifacts and archives, Friends of ASOR spent two unforgettable days exploring Philadelphia through the lens of archaeology, art, and curation. Read about our Philadelphia tour here: https://t.co/ZkV47iTwVz

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Join ASOR’s Early Career Scholars on May 29, 2026, at 12:00pm ET via Zoom for a virtual talk from Dr. Leilani Lucas about reconstructing culinary practices in prehistoric Cyprus from charred food remains. Register here: https://t.co/4L6qgXSIeO
#Cyprus

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Through support from the U.S. Department of State, ASOR partnered with Libya’s Department of Antiquities to document and repair flood damage at the archaeological sites of Cyrene, Ptolemais, and Tocra in eastern Libya. Read more about these projects here: https://t.co/Qi50pQyb8g

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Don't forget to tune in TONIGHT at 7:00 pm ET for the last FOA webinar of the season, presented by Dr. Danielle Candelora: “'I am the border': Borders and Immigration in Ancient Egypt”. If you haven't already signed up, click here to register for free: https://t.co/APvMPGhSbM

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The May issue of BASOR 395 features articles like: The Life and Afterlife of the Palace of Herod Antipas in Tiberias; Mesha’s Moab: Settlement Patterns and Site Interactions on the Madaba Plateau; and much more. Read it here: https://t.co/cmviQgi9b3

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With an ASOR Dana Grant, Silvia Amicone conducted geological fieldwork along the shore of Mosul Dam Lake in Iraq, documenting endangered clay deposits to trace pottery-making traditions in the Upper Tigris region. Read more here: https://t.co/71d2f9Q7ev
#Fieldwork #Iraq #Tigris

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Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a terracotta kitchen mold of an anthropomorphic woman, found at the Amorite royal palace complex in Mari (modern-day Syria). ca. 1782-1759 BCE. Louvre AO 18913. Credit: 2022 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Raphaél Chipault
#Archaeology #Amorite

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The Cultural Heritage Watch platform not only documents the damage to Iran’s heritage in wartime but preserves the social memories and meanings of these places. Read the newest ANE Today by Kiersten Neumann here: https://t.co/ktnsNxlxs8
#Iran #CulturalHeritage