The Department of Antiquities of Jordan and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens are organizing the 16th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan, which will be held at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, from 22 to 26 September 2025.

The ICHAJ, organized every three years, is an event of utmost importance for the scientific community of archaeologists and historians who, at an international level, are interested in the archaeology of Jordan, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and long-term Euro-Mediterranean cultural relations. The first ICHAJ was held in Oxford in 1980, as an initiative of HRH Prince El-Hassan bin Talal, one of the world's leading intellectuals of the Arab world, under whose patronage the conference continues to be organized.

Since 1980, the ICHAJ has been hosted in the major cultural capitals and the most important research institutes of the world. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens conference in September  2025   follows those of Yarmouk University 2022,  University of Florence 2019, Amman (2016, Princess Sumaya University), Berlin (2013, Humboldt Universitat), Paris (2010, University Paris- 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Washington (2007, George Washington University).. etc. 

As previously heralded by HRH Prince El-Hassan Bin Talal, the initiator and patron of this conference: “we need to create a continuum between the past, present and future, which extends beyond the narrow nationalism of the state perspective towards the Levant as a region, thereby potentially stabilizing the region and raising its profile”.