Newsletter, Number 46 (July, 1962)
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Ten years ago the Center issued a statement saying: "It is hoped and anticipated that, like the American Schools at Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, the Center may be able...to sponsor and conduct excavations in Egypt. Such excavations would be purely scientific in purpose, intended chiefly to augment the world’s knowledge of Egyptian antiquity and to provide a practical ’laboratory’ in which to train future generations of archaeologists, architects, epigraphers, and copyists. Since excavation is meaningless without prompt and adequate publication of the results, each season’s work should be published in full-year by year; and it is regarded as essential that, before a program of excavation is entered upon, provisions shall be completed for the production of such annual publications.11
Newsletter, 28 January 1955
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Much of the work of the Cairo office is not very spectacular and attracts little attention locally. A number of inquiries are received by mail every week which are answered more or less promptly, depending on their nature. Bequests for photographs and other information, especially bibliographical data, come in regularly, and to fulfill them as well as possible and as quickly as possible takes much time and often much energy. We try to keep in touch with the other Schools affiliated with the Archaeological Institute of. America as well as with museums and universities at home, and even some of our European colleagues have turned to us for help if their own channels of approach proved inadequate. There are a number of callers every few days who wish to inform themselves of items as varied as the address of a certain institution in the U.S. and the number of American expeditions which have worked in Egypt in the past. There were also several American archaeologists on visits from Athens and Jerusalem whom we took to some of the sites near Cairo, and there is the ever-present task of keeping abreast of what is going on in the field and of writing it up for the Newsletter. But it was the showing of Mr. Garner’s film EGYPT - A JOURNEY INTO THE PAST which brought the Center to the attention of a wider public here in Cairo, and in order to follow up this interest it has been decided to arrange a number of tours for interested members of the American colony and their friends.