A Special Visit: The United States House Appropriations Committee Visit Luxor, Praising ARCE Projects
At the end of October, Dr. Louise Bertini, ARCE’s Executive Director, led a tour for members of the United States House Appropriations Committee. Chairman Tom Cole alongside Congressmen Mark Alford, John Rutherford, Ed Case, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and their respective delegation, all explored the magnificent Karnak and Khonsu Temples in Luxor, gaining insights into ARCE’s impactful work supported by USAID.
We’re proud to announce another Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) project “Excavating and conserving the temple of Ramesess II in Abydos” by Dr. Sameh Iskander, leading the New York University expedition!
The excavation of the temple precinct revealed a multitude of new perspectives, uncovering all of its enclosure walls, temple palace, storage magazines, and even restoring the mud-brick first pylon. Various artifacts dating from the Ramesside period to early Islamic times were found, such as a head of a black granite goddess from Tuthmosis III’s reign, a seated steatite statue from the twenty-sixth dynasty, stelae, Coptic and Demotic ostraca, and fragments of temple walls originally discarded by Mariette during his excavations in the 1860s.
If you’re interested in applying for an AEF grant, our applications are open until February 2025.
Become a Guardian of Egyptian History
Support ARCE in preserving Egyptian cultural heritage and history for the future through donations that fund efforts in cultural heritage protection and restoration, as well as education, research, and training.
Your contribution is not just a donation; it’s your way to make an impact, your way to join us in protecting and saving Egyptian cultural history and being part of the legacy of preserving our most important history.
Interested in Conducting Research in Egypt? Apply to our Fellowship Opportunities
Let the countdown begin! ARCE has opened its US fellowship applications!
ARCE-funded fellowships support intellectuals interested in conducting academic research in Egypt on various topics. We invite heritage enthusiasts to carry out research in diverse fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fire art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music.
Deadline to apply: January 5, 2025.
Presenting Kiosk: An Archaeological Field Recording and Management Platform
Do you have a field project? Are you looking for a more efficient way to gather your data and analyze it for publication?
Kiosk is a free and open-source integrated iPad recording platform and browser-based data manager for field archaeology, developed and maintained at Brown University, an ARCE Research Supporting Member. It is currently used in the recording of excavation data in projects from Egypt to Sardinia and Cyprus, in surveys in Sudan and Peru, and to facilitate tomb documentation in Egypt. It allows for the recording and integration of data while in the field, from field journals and photographs, to unit and context information and the automatic rendering of Harris Matrices, to object registration. Kiosk also enables the analysis of data for publication by allowing users to easily query, as well as easily search through, their data online post-season.
Kiosk is available to anyone who wishes to use it, including tech support for customization and while in the field. It is suitable for everything from a one-summer survey project run by a graduate student, to a field school, to an ongoing legacy excavation with decades of old data to digitize.
Find out more about Kiosk and its capabilities here, and get in touch with kiosk-team@brown.edu
Our Research Supporting Members
November Chapter Events
With more than a dozen individual chapters across the United States and Canada, ARCE’s mission of fostering a broader knowledge and appreciation of Egypt’s cultural heritage among the general public is constantly advanced by active local communities.
Collectively, ARCE Chapters host over 100 lectures per year by experts in topics spanning the full timeline of Egyptian history. These lectures, as well as affiliation with a chapter, are complimentary to all ARCE members. Here are some of their upcoming lectures:
- ARCE NT: From Amarna’s Maru-Aten to Dallas, TX: Tracing the Travels of a Cartouche Fragment in Bridwell Library Special Collections by Dr. Shelby Justl – November 09
- ARCE PA: No Ordinary Dogs: Canine Behavior in Theban Tombs by Dr. Chelsea Kaufman – November 09
- ARCE Georgia – Hatshepsut and the Temple of Mut by Dr. Betsy Bryan – November 09
- ARCE NC: Archives in the Crocodile: The Tebtunis Crocodile Papyri As the Missing Link between Ptolemaic and Roman Notarial Practices by Leah Packard-Grams – November 17
