AWAS alternates each year between a Summit and a more academically focused Symposium. These two facets are complementary, like an aerial survey one year and site excavation the next.
The Zhengzhou-AlUla Archaeology Seminar 2025 in Henan marks the third regional edition of AlUla World Archaeology Summit (AWAS). Co-hosted by the Zhengzhou Shang Dynasty Capital Site Museum and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), this invitation-only gathering of leading experts in Arabian and Asian cultural heritage explores how identity was expressed through faith, trade, urban life, and writing in the ancient kingdoms of AlUla and Henan—from the second millennium BCE to the second century CE.