As ARCE enters its 70th year, please help support our mission of fostering knowledge of Egyptian cultural heritage and preserving its historic monuments and archaeological wonders:
By Kathlyn M. Cooney, UCLA For most of its history, Egyptology has looked upon tomb robbery and funerary arts reuse as aberrant, regressive and abnormal. Documents like the Tomb Robbery Papyri have...
Heba Abdelsalam U.S. Program Advisor, Alexandria headquarters I am Egyptian-American, and I have a Ph.D. in public history from Middle Tennessee State University. In addition, I hold a master’s degree...
The effort to restore the unique wall paintings in this 18-dynasty tomb in Luxor was led by archaeologist Lyla Pinch-Brock, in partnership with ARCE and the Royal Ontario Museum.
From 1998 to 2004, ARCE carried out a comprehensive project to document and conserve Coptic icons - visually striking and spiritually invaluable images that are rooted in early Coptic artistic...
Shattered in antiquity, the sarcophagus of Ramesside ruler, Rameses VI, remained damaged and undocumented until Egyptologist Edwin Brock, in partnership with ARCE, began a project to reconstruct it in...
ARCE's cultural heritage preservation activities in Egypt foster economic, environmental and social resiliency, speaking to the organization's commitment to sustainable practices and outcomes.
In commemoration of ARCE’s 70th anniversary in 2018, we’ve scoured the project archives to highlight seven decades of work in excavation, research and preservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage.
One of the surviving Fatimid gates of the walled medieval city of Cairo, Bab Zuwayla is a distinctive monument in the modern capital and one of ARCE’s most challenging and definitive conservation...
From a sanctuary of the god Amun to a Roman camp then a church and finally a mosque, the site of the Abu’l-Hajjaj mosque is a captivating melting pot of ancient, medieval and modern Egyptian heritage...
By joining today, you’ll become a part of the effort to discover and preserve Egyptian cultural heritage, while also supporting the cross-cultural exchange of ideas and scholarship between the US and Egypt.
