Big Moments in BAS History (1975–2010)
March 1975
First issue of BAR is published in 7-by-10-inch brown-and-cream format.
March 1976
First time BAR includes a color photo.
March 1977
BAS offers first travel/study tour to Egypt, Jordan and Israel.
March 1978
BAR format is enlarged to standard magazine size.
1983
BAS buys first computer.
September/October 1984
BAS awards first Publication Awards.
1986
BAS moves business operation out of publisher Susan Laden’s basement to an office building in Washington, D.C.
January/February 1992
BAR is redesigned.
1992
BAR is produced and designed digitally for the first time.
1993
BAS awards first dig scholarships to volunteers.
July/August 1996
BAR is redesigned—again.
July/August 1998
BAS goes online with first Web site www.biblicalarchaeology.org.
May/June 2003
BAR is redesigned—again.
March/April 2006
BAR introduces new format and current design.
January/February 2007
BAS launches new Digs Web site.
April 2009
BAS pages go live on Facebook and Twitter.