2025 UPDATES FROM THE FIELD
It is a busy and exciting time of year for many ASOR-affiliated projects. Below are some links to updates and stories from the field on social media. Click to read the latest edge-of-the-trowel news from the field. Survey, excavation, processing artifacts, conservation, visiting other sites, talking to the public, hosting outreach events—these accounts offer a slice-of-life picture of archaeology in action.
Aayush Umesh, 2025 Eric and Carol Meyers fieldwork scholarship recipient, and team members excavating at Tall Hisban, Jordan.
- (Egypt) Excavation of tombs revealing the lives of people in the border town of Aswan.
- Ìý(Iraq) Investigation of a multi-mound site in the Erbil Plain.
- (Iraq) Middle Bronze Age city excavations in the Erbil Plain plus a workshop on cuneiform tablet conservation.
- (Spain) Excavations of a medieval Islamic domestic complex plus a conference on Islamic archaeology.
- (Italy) Excavation and geophysical survey of a Punic settlement on an island off the coast of Sicily.
- Ìý(Turkey) Survey of the ancient site of Phoenix in the Marmaris region.
- Ìý(Turkey) Survey project investigating the imperial strategies of the Hittite Empire, as well as the response of the local populations to Hittite imperialism
- (Turkey) Bioarchaeology of Syedra: reconstructing lived experiences through human skeletal remains at Syedra with a focus on Roman and Byzantine periods.
- (Turkey) Excavation and conservation of a Late Bronze Age palace and city.
- (Israel) Excavation of monumental remains of temples, palaces, and fortification systems in the Judean Lowlands.
- (Egypt) Research and conservation of the ancient Thmuis, a Greco-Roman city in the Nile Delta.
- (Turkey) Excavation of a Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Hellenistic urban center in the Konya Plain.
Projects with Upcoming Fieldwork
- (Iraq): Excavation of a settlement in the Baizan Valley, occupied from the 4th millennium BCE through the Islamic periods.
- Ìý(Iraq) Mosul Dam archaeological project of University of Palermo and Duhok Directorate of Antiquities.
Stay tuned from more news from students and researchers later this summer and fall both on the ASOR website and social media.