Egypt
San Antonio Business Journal (Tamarind Phinissee)
Another old news item which I missed, this one dating to the end of August.
- News On Protests From The American Research Centre In Egypt (thanks Owen)
Thanks to Owen Jarus for sending me this link on his Unreported Heritage blog. Owen has interviewed Dr. Gerry Scott, the director of ARCE, who is in Cairo right now. Here's an exerpt but see Owen's page for the full interview synopsis: The lack...
- The 2009 Mut Expeditions
Brooklyn Museum Thanks to Lin Wang for this good news from the Brooklyn Museum's Temle of Mut team, with some excellent photographs: The Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition’s next season of fieldwork will take place between mid-January and mid-March,...
- Waging Peace
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nina Hamedani) This article appeared on Google Reader this morning, even though it refers to something that took place in October 2008. Still, better late than never: AT AN OCT. 6 presentation at the Woodrow Wilson...
- Giza Plateau Mapping Project - Field Schools
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm A good insight into the work of the Giza Plateu Mapping Project with special emphasis on its training of Egyptian field archaeologists: "Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), realised...
- Priority On Site Management
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/811/he1.htm "With the approach of a new archaeological season, Jill Kamil takes a look at a number of projects either completed, in progress, or planned for the coming years . . . . Much has been achieved since ARCE signed...
Egypt
News: ARCE wins big grant to help safeguard Egyptian antiquity
San Antonio Business Journal (Tamarind Phinissee)
Another old news item which I missed, this one dating to the end of August.
The American Research Center in Egypt, based in San Antonio, has been awarded a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Gerry Scott III, Ph.D., director of the research center (ARCE), says the USAID grant will be used to help fund some “really large projects” that are already under way in Egypt.
Among these projects, Scott says, is the completion of the conservation of the funerary enclosure of King Khasekhemwy, the last pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty. . . .
In addition to the funerary project, the locally based ARCE also will use the USAID grant to fund the restoration of the wall paintings at the Red Monastery, a famous Christian monastery in Egypt. The walls, Scott says, are now covered with soot build-up from years of exposure to incense and candle smoke.
Additional projects to be sponsored with the new USAID grant, awarded in July, include creating a plan for site and visitation (tourist) management in Historic Cairo (the Islamic historic area); developing a museum at the ancient Coptic Monastery of St. Antony near the Red Sea; continuing the Archaeological Field School at Giza; and publishing materials about ARCE’s various activities.
In addition to the recent USAID grant, ARCE also received approval from the agency to continue its work on the Egyptian Museum Registrar Training project.
- News On Protests From The American Research Centre In Egypt (thanks Owen)
Thanks to Owen Jarus for sending me this link on his Unreported Heritage blog. Owen has interviewed Dr. Gerry Scott, the director of ARCE, who is in Cairo right now. Here's an exerpt but see Owen's page for the full interview synopsis: The lack...
- The 2009 Mut Expeditions
Brooklyn Museum Thanks to Lin Wang for this good news from the Brooklyn Museum's Temle of Mut team, with some excellent photographs: The Brooklyn Museum Mut Expedition’s next season of fieldwork will take place between mid-January and mid-March,...
- Waging Peace
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nina Hamedani) This article appeared on Google Reader this morning, even though it refers to something that took place in October 2008. Still, better late than never: AT AN OCT. 6 presentation at the Woodrow Wilson...
- Giza Plateau Mapping Project - Field Schools
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm A good insight into the work of the Giza Plateu Mapping Project with special emphasis on its training of Egyptian field archaeologists: "Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), realised...
- Priority On Site Management
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/811/he1.htm "With the approach of a new archaeological season, Jill Kamil takes a look at a number of projects either completed, in progress, or planned for the coming years . . . . Much has been achieved since ARCE signed...