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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.
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.
Acknowledging the tremendous support for the ARCE fellowship program by
Egyptian scholars and institutions, ARCE hosted a special
reception on April 5th to honor the Egyptian Affiliate Scholars and
senior officials from the National Archives and Library, the Egyptian
Museum, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), and the Ministry of
Antiquities who work closely with the Fellowship Program.
March 2012
The Red Monastery church in Sohag is an astonishingly rare example of the coloristic intensity of late
antique monuments in Egypt. In this church, late antique paintings
cover about eighty percent of the walls, niches, columns, pilasters,
pediments and apses. Read More >>
Former ARCE Board President, Dr. Carol Redmount, reports archaeological sites throughout Egypt are currently being heavily
looted, including the critical site of El Hibeh about 3 hours south of
Cairo. Once these sites are gone, they are lost forever. Read More >>
Dr. Andre Veldmeijer and Dr. Salima Ikram share their study and documentation of leather pieces and fragments from a hitherto unrecorded and unstudied near-complete chariot that dates to the New Kingdom. This project was funded by ARCE's Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF).
Read the interview >>
January 2012
In November, ARCE Luxor office moved to the west bank of the Nile in support of a new initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Picture Cairo during the most important Eid of the year. Weddings at the hotel every night. Brightly lit party boats cruising the Nile. Light traffic (if you can imagine it) in Garden City. Cool mornings and warm afternoons. Evening sounds of celebration and leisure.
Luigi De Cesaris, who died from a heart attack at the Red Monastery, near Sohag, on December 19 2011, contributed a significant part of his professional life to ARCE’s wall painting conservation projects.
Professional members of ARCE, Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D'Auria, publish an exciting new volume on ancient Nubia.
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