May 2013
On May 9, an Egyptian man who was in the area of the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Cairo attacked ARCE Scholar-in-Residence, Christopher Stone. Professor Stone has requested that ARCE provide this information to correct inaccurate reports in the press and on social media.
Week 3 saw staff and students diligently drawing the complex remains of a ruined modern house beside the excavation.
April 2013
John Adams, director emeritus of the Orange County Public Library, former ARCE Board of Governors member, and founder and first president of the ARCE Orange County California Chapter, has written a fascinating new book on the life and times of Theodore M. Davis and his impact on the history of Egyptology.
There's no better way to learn archaeology than to get your hands dirty.
March 2013
Without prioritizing texts in formal Arabic over those in the spoken idiom, this symposium, held in early March, called on presenters – artists, academics and critics – to comment on their own or others’ cultural responses to the above or other political events in Egypt, a consistently important cultural center in the Arab world.
February 2013
In Lexington, with a team that included a carpenter, saddler, blacksmith and conservator, we recreated a full-scale model of an ancient Egyptian harness and chariot.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries. Lockwood Press. Oct. 2012. Foreword by W. Benson Harer Jr.
Since 2007 the Registration, Collections Management & Documentation Department at the Egyptian Museum has gone from strength to strength under some of the most unique and challenging circumstances.
January 2013
ARCE member and professor Th. Emil Homerin has published two books in over the past year.
In early December 2012, an international group of invited architects, archaeologists, conservators, art historians, cultural heritage management specialists and antiquities officials, together with USAID representatives and clergy of the Coptic Church, met at the Red Monastery in Sohag, Upper Egypt.
November 2012
By the time the torrid days of summer begin to fade and Cairenes begin
to notice the faintest trace of cool in the early morning air, ARCE is
already deep into fellowship preparations on both sides of the Atlantic.
As
ten years of conservation at the Red Monastery Church in Sohag (funded
by the U.S. Agency for International Development) nears completion, the
time to discuss questions about the future stewardship and preservation of this extraordinary church and important sixth century example of living religious heritage has arrived.
October 2012
ARCE will jointly sponsor the Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt to be held at the Flamenco (Golden Tulip) Hotel in Zamalek from January 31 – February 2, 2013.
September 2012
Dr. Janet Johnson, Egyptologist and ARCE Board of Governors member, was interviewed about the Demotic dictionary that has been the focus of her research over the course of her career.
Mohamed El Shahed, an ARCE Fellow from 2010-2011, brings attention to Cairo's architectural history.
August 2012
When long time ARCE member Dr. W. Benson Harer, Jr. entered The London
International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia, Washington, in 2005, and
made his way around the stalls, he had no idea of the treasure he would
find.
Picture an austere desertscape of dry valleys and mountains. Nestled
against this backdrop stands a monastery complex surrounded by high
adobe walls with churches and chapels, a bakery, a spring, and a lush
garden where olive and date trees are cultivated by monks under the
unrelenting sun of Egypt's Eastern Desert.
July 2012
The project, Documentation of the Inscriptions in the Historic Zone of
Cairo, aims to preserve and document inscriptions and epigraphs on
Islamic monuments in the city up until the 1800s.
June 2012
ARCE's Associate Director Michael Jones will preside (in Session 1) and present (in Session 2) at a panel discussion entitled Monastic Material Cultures: Image, Site, Text at the Tenth International Congress of Coptic
Studies in Rome on September 17-22 September 2012.
Michael Jones'
presentation “Getting at the Meaning of Places: The Authority of the
Past Selectively Reconstructed to Serve the Present” will delve into the
issues of conservation at historic churches in use in Egypt.
May 2012
On an ‘anything but normal’ work day, I went to the Egyptian National
Archives where I found the remains of thousands of manuscripts, books
and maps from the Institut d’Égypte laid across its front lawns, in pick-up trucks double-parked on
the Corniche el-Nil Road, and on the floor of the lobby of the archives.
When I entered the building, I knew that I would not conduct research that day, not after seeing the activities downstairs.