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Key attendees at the AFCP launch event included, from left to right, Eman Abdalsalam (TWLCRM team member and Sela president), Elena Ronza (TWLCRM co-director), Ragini Gupta (U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer), Dr. Emad Hijazeen (PAP Commissioner), Dr. Glenn J. Corbett (ACOR Associate Director and TWLCRM Co-Director), Alice G. Wells (U.S. Ambassador to Jordan), and Barbara A. Porter (ACOR Director). Photo by Eric Barbee, U.S. Embassy Press Officer.

Temple of the Winged Lions awarded renewal grant from Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation

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On 13 September 2015, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells launched a grant awarded under the Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) to expand conservation of the Temple of the Winged Lions.  The grant, totaling $200,000, was awarded to the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in partnership with the Jordanian Department […]

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Jordan’s Cultural Caretakers — SCHEP Launches “Site Steward” Program

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The participants and organizers of the first SCHEP site steward workshop. Back row, left to right: Ragheb Fityan (SCHEP M&E Specialist), Mohammad al-Saideen (Bi’r Mathkour), Bilal al-Deghemat (Ghor al-Safi), Erin Addison (SCHEP CHR Projects Lead), Abdelrahman al-Nasarat (CHR Projects Lead Assistant), Huda Kilani (SCHEP Capacity Building Lead), Muaffaq al-Masaeed (Umm al-Jimal), Safa’ al-Rfooh (Busayra), Glenn

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The Petra Papyri—An Archive from Petra’s Byzantine Past

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Aerial view of the Petra Church, excavated by ACOR in the early 1990s, where the famous Petra Papyri were discovered. Photo from ACOR archive. In the early 1990s, a Byzantine church on a hillside above the city center of Petra with beautiful mosaic floors was excavated by the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in

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Jordan and the Administrative Legacy of the Umayyads

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The Umayyad desert complex of Qusayra ‘Amra, one of Jordan’s famous “desert castles” (qusur), dated to the eighth century CE. Photo by Tareq Ramdan At the crossroads of numerous, sometimes overlapping and intersecting empires and civilizations, Jordan has become the final resting place for a dizzying array of historical and archaeological treasures. While dotted by

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ACOR Conservation Technician Naif Zaban and the ACOR Conservation Cooperative

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Naif Zaban at the Jordan Museum during the installation of the fall 2010 special exhibit "The Umayyad Mosaics of the Dome of the Rock: A Closer Look," which included reproductions of an arcade spandrel created by the Mosaic Centre in Jericho. Photo by Barbara A. Porter. This story is adapted from the original article that

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Faces of Jordan’s Archaeology – Zakariya Na’imat

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A fixture of ACOR and the ACOR Library through the years, Jordanian archaeologist Zakariya Na’imat is now working to complete a Ph.D. in Islamic Archaeology at the University of Bonn. Photo by Barbara Porter. From time to time, the ACOR Blog highlights the careers and accomplishments of notable Jordanians in the field of archaeology and

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Introducing SCHEP: Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project

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A major goal of SCHEP is to support the development of trained local teams capable of implementing necessary interventions at archaeological sites around Jordan, such as this conservation unit shown working on ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions project in Petra. Photo by Ghaith al-Faqeer. In November 2014, ACOR signed on to implement a USAID-funded

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