2019 Field Season: Overview
Our 2019 field season is underway, with some exciting new trenches and some new faces (including me). In this post, I’ll provide a brief overview of the various strands of […]
Visual Report: Installation of 33 Signs Along The Interpretive Trail
Recently, this summer the Umm el-Jimal Archaeological Project team, using funding from USAID-ACOR-SCHEP, created and installed 33 bilingual signs, in English and Arabic, along the interpretive trail at Umm el-Jimal. […]
Visual Report: Maronite Cardinal Mar Bishara Boutros Al-Ra’i Visit, July 2, 2018 (Tue)
The Municipality of Umm Al-Jamal in Mafraq Governorate received the Patriarch of Antioch and the rest of the Levant Maronite Cardinal Mar Bishara Boutros Al-Ra’i on Tuesday, July 24, in […]
Visual Report: Norad Workshop at ACOR
Team photo, Norad Workshop held at ACOR in Amman, 26 March – 2 April, 2017. Our group posing with Tariq al-Mhairat (wearing blue tie), U of Jordan Museum Curator, consists […]
Visual Report: Water Project Report, October-November 2016 Field Season
WATER PROJECT REPORT – October-November 2016 Field Season By Bert de Vries, 13 December 2016 Summary of Field Season, Oct 10 – Nov 2 The primary goal of this season […]
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Visual Report: Umm El-Jimal Water System Preservation and Reactivation
UMM EL-JIMAL WATER SYSTEM PRESERVATION AND REACTIVATION UMM EL-JIMAL PROJECT (UJP) Report on Field Work, 11 Oct – 13 Nov, 2015, to the Department of Antiquities Funded by NORHED/NORAD of […]
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Visual Report: Preliminary Report and Field Work on the Water Project
Preliminary Report, 6 September 2015 Archaeology at Umm el-Jimal, April-September 2015, in the NORHED Birzeit-Bergen URBAN TRANSFORMATION Program Bert de Vries Umm el-Jimal Project Director Summary of Project A. The […]
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UJ in the News: “The ‘black city’ of Um Al Jimal: at the crossroads of civilizations”
Um Al Jimal was featured in an article in The Jordan Times that revisits the history of Um Al Jimal. Read more about the great basalt city in which Umm […]
Conference: ASOR 2016
Umm el-Jimal Project staff attended the 2016 American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, from November 16-19, 2016. ASOR, a scholarly association with over 90 affiliated […]
Visual Report: Creating the East Interpretive Trail
I. Project Goals and Trail Development Creation of the East Interpretive Trail was one of the goals of the SCHEP Phase I Project, done in cooperation with the Department of […]
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Visual Report: Preserving the Commodus Gate
The preservation of Umm el-Jimal’s Commodus Gate and West Entry Area was completed through a permit-based partnership with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. The work was funded by USAID […]
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UJ in the News: “Archaeology for the Future at Umm el-Jimal”
In the most recent ACOR Newsletter, Bert de Vries reviews the completed projects including Conservation of the House XVII–XVIII Complex and the virtual museum and provides plans for the most […]
Conference: ICHAJ 2016
Members of the Umm el-Jimal Project joined archaeologists, practitioners, and scholars from around the world for the 13th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan. Sponsored by the […]
UJ in the News: “The Middle East Heritage Debate”
“The Middle Eastern Heritage Debate is Becoming Worryingly Colonial.” This thought-provoking article by Oxford research fellow Mirjam Birsius in The Conversation highlighted the Umm el-Jimal Project’s community-based approach to cultural […]
Conference: ASOR 2015
Umm el-Jimal Project staff attended the 2015 American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 18-22, 2015. ASOR, a scholarly association with over 90 affiliated institutions, […]
Conference: Protecting the Past 2015
The Umm el-Jimal Project and Open Hand Studios joined archaeologists, scholars, and government officials from a variety of universities and agencies across the globe to share the work we’ve done […]
Community Archaeology and Women
Hello fellow archaeology enthusiasts! My name is Lauren Coughlin and I am working for the Umm el-Jimal Project. I am a graduate student at the American University of Rome studying […]
SCHEP Project Launch & UJ15 Slideshow
As another summer field season draws to a close, the UJ15 team took a few minutes at dawn for our annual team photo outside ancient Umm el-Jimal’s Commodus Gate in […]
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