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:
The Antiquities Endowment Fund awards grants for professional projects that serve the conservation, preservation and documentation needs of Egyptian antiquities that are more than 100 years old.
By May al-Ibrashy When the only woman to rule Egypt in the Islamic period was considering where she wanted to be buried, she could have chosen from many hallowed locations, including her husband's...
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...
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.
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.
