Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) was founded in 1881. It is a private, non-profit institution. As a center of scholarly research and teaching, it is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present. Its two libraries, the Blegen Library and the Gennadius Library, along with the ASCSA Archives, serve as significant resources for interdisciplinary research in the fields of archaeology and anthropology, archaeological sciences, topography, architecture, epigraphy, numismatics, history, art history, philology, philosophy, religion, and cultural studies.

The Archives Department includes collections of manuscripts and printed material from the establishment of the ASCSA in 1881 to the present. The collections encompass, among others, the administrative records of the School, excavation records from American archaeological projects in Greece, and personal papers of American researchers who worked in Greece. A significant portion of the ASCSA's archival collections consists of personal papers of historical figures of Modern Greece, whose creators (or their descendants) entrusted them to the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies.