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 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...
Heba Abd El Salam U.S. Program Advisor, Alexandria headquarters Dr. Heba Abd EL Salam earned her Ph.D. in public history from Middle Tennessee State University and a master’s degree in anthropology...
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...
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.
