By Jacqueline Salzinger, Development and Communications Officer In January 2020, ACOR kicked off the new decade in the company of twelve faculty members visiting Jordan from the U.S. They were joining us for just over two weeks through a program put on in partnership with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) under the…
To see other ACOR lectures in English, please click here. (يوم الثلاثاء 24 أيلول 2019 الساعة 6 مساءً في المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث الشرقية (أكور برديات بترا: ذاكرة المدينة و أهلها في القرن السادس الميلادي في عام 1993 اكتُشف أرشيف من البرديات اليونانية في الكنيسة البيزنطية ببترا، يتضمن 140 بردية تقريبًا، مؤرخة في القرن السادس الميلادي،…
ACOR benefits tremendously from the work of the smart, talented graduate and undergraduate students who work with us in voluntary or for-credit internships. We would like to show our gratitude for these interns by sharing here on our blog their accomplished backgrounds and some of the projects to which they contributed during their time with…
Corbett argues that archaeology projected scientific knowledge on a past that legitimized the present and contributed to the imagining of political geographies. “Archaeology not only was a camoufla… Source: Elena Corbett “Competitive Archaeology in Jordan” (2014)
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