The 2018 EPAS field season is complete

September 29, 2018

A brief report is available here.

Report on the 2011 field seasons at Qasr Shemamok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

August 21, 2018

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A report on the 2011 field seasons at the Assyrian city...

New publication: Water for Assyria

July 30, 2018

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A study of the ancient water systems of Nimrud and Erbil has just appeared in the volume Water for Assyria, see...

The archaeology of the Kurdistan Region in the news

November 23, 2017

A good review of the ongoing "renaissance" has appeared in... Read more about The archaeology of the Kurdistan Region in the news

Interview with Rudaw Kurdish News Agency

June 3, 2017

An interview with the Kurdistan-based Rudaw news agency has just appeared here. Read more about Interview with Rudaw Kurdish News Agency

3D Landscapes in the Kurdistan Region on Sketchfab

March 20, 2017

The drone data collection program of the Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey (EPAS) is producing interactive 3D models of sites and landscapes in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Click here for our models on Sketchfab.

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Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities at Dumbarton Oaks, May 5-6, 2017

March 20, 2017

Prof. Ur will be speaking at the upcoming Dumbarton Oaks symposium on the Landscapes of Pre-Industrial Cities, 5-6 May 2017. See here for the full schedule.

Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey is in the field (August-September)

September 6, 2016

Follow our findings on Facebook here. This season the team is experimenting with UAVs in archaeological survey. See Facebook for more photos of the landscape of Kurdistan from above.

EPAS lecture in Toronto (CSMS Annual Grayson Lecture)

January 6, 2016

On Wednesday,13 January 2016, Jason Ur, Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, will give the A.K. Grayson Lecture on Assyrian History and Culture for the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies:

CITIES AND LANDSCAPES OF ASSYRIA: NEW RESEARCH IN THE IMPERIAL CORE

In August 2012 a new Harvard University archaeological research project began in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. This area was the core of the Neo-Assyrian empire (ca. 900-600 BC), which at its greatest stretched from Egypt to Iran. The Erbil Plain...

Spying on Las Vegas

March 18, 2015

On Monday, Jason Ur gave a lecture at the University of Nevada Las Vegas University Forum entitled "Spying on Antiquity: Declassified US Intelligence Satellite Imagery and Near Eastern Archaeology." It included several CORONA spy satellite images of Las Vegas (1965) and the immediate region of the UNLV campus, which can be viewed here.

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