On 24 November 1929, the Jesuit Fathers of the Pontifical Biblical Institute started their excavations at the site of Teleilat Ghassul, on the east bank of the Jordan just north of the Dead Sea. Over nine seasons (1929-38, 1959-60), the excavation not only yielded a significant amount of archaeological material — mostly still part of our archaeological collection — but also a very significant excavation archive.

As marked our 90 years from the beginning of the excavations, we started a project to make these resources ever more accessible to researchers, so that this legacy may be better known, and better appreciated, and that the work initiated by the PBI in 1929 may continue to help uncover the fascinating site of Teleilat Ghassul.