JOURNEYS ERASED BY TIME: The rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the Near East
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Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES TIME MAKE? : papers from the ancient and Islamic middle
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Proceedings of a conference held at St. Mary's University in Notre Dame, Indiana (2017), this volume presents a wide-ranging exploration of Time as experienced and contemplated. Included are offerings on ancient Mesopotamian archaeology, literature and religion, Biblical texts and archaeology, Chinese literature and philosophy, and Islamic law.
Newsletter, Number 93 (SPRING 1975)
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CONTENTS:
Director--
Notes From Princeton--
Photograph of ARCE Fellows for 1974-75--
Quantitative Research on the Middle East in Islamic Times: Progress and Prospects / by Philip N. Pritchard--
Current Medieval Islamic Historical Studies / by Jere L. Bacharach--
Egyptian Cabinet Reshuffle--
Mr. Albert Abdel Ahad Appointed Business Manager of Cairo Center--
The Center’s Guest Book--
Ink Drawings / by Martyn Lack.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 198 - (Spring 2011)
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Unrest and Revolution: A View from Midan Simon Bolivar Friday, February 4, 2011 -- More Than Interesting Times -- Egypt in Transition -- the Conservator's Art: Preserving Egypt's Past "The Tomb of St. Shenoute? More Results From the White Monastery (Dayr Anba Shenouda), Sohag" -- Enchained Hadith: Mysticism and Higher Education in Eighteenth-Century Egypt -- the Windy City Hosts ARCE's 62nd Annual Meeting -- Around ARCE and Egypt -- the ARCE Endowment Campaign.
Newsletter,10 Novamber 1954
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Mr. William K. Simpson (Research Associate), Mr. Bernard V. Bothmer (Director), and Mrs. Bothmer (Administrative Officer) arrived in Alexandria on September 16 on board the Gumhuryat Misr, one of the new boats of the Khedivial Mail Line. En route to Egypt they were able to visit the Egyptian collections in the Museo Nazionale in Naples and in the Mus،e National Libanais in Beirut and to make an excursion to the Nahr el Kelb, north of Beirut, where since the times of Ramesses II conquerors and victors had left their inscriptions on the rocks overlooking one of the finest bays of the Mediterranean.
Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages
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The exhibition was opened on the 9th of November, 2021 at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and was followed by a three-day conference from the 10th to the 12th of November, 2021. This three-day conference, in partnership with The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA), covered the veneration of deceased figures in Egypt from the Pharaonic period up to current times, using the diverse evidence available in terms of texts, images, and lived traditions. The conference featured academic papers as well as panel discussions focusing on current practises related to the veneration of the dead and their origins, which may be traced back to ancient Egypt, and was aimed at both academic and non-academic participants. The former presented academic papers, while the latter (which included creatives from different fields) participated in panel discussions. Academic papers published in a peer-reviewed journal
Newsletter, 30 June 1956
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It has become quiet about the wooden boat of King Cheops which was found in a pit on the south side of the Great Pyramid in 1954, and even the -New York Times in a recent advertisement calls the bark funerary rather than solar. At the end of April, a representative of the Center was permitted to take exclusive pictures of the work in progress for publication in the forthcoming issue of Archaeology. He reports that he owed this unusual privilege to the kindness of the Director General of the Antiquities Department, Professor Mustafa Amer, and that he was received at the site by the Chief Inspector of the Antiquities Department for Cairo and Giza, Mr. Zaki Noor, who took him around and showed him all details of the installation. The large brick building, which was erected last year between the eastern part of the baseline of the Great Pyramid's south side and the wooden shed surmounting the boat chamber, is about 40 meters long, and except for a small office in the southwest corner presents itself as a large hall, the south wall of which has not been built in order to give ready access to the boat pit and permit the removal of large beams from the latter without difficulty. Here and there on the floor are a number of large panels, actually the walls of deck cabins, which have already been treated by Dr. Zaki Iskander, Chief Chemist of the Cairo Museum, who is in charge of the technical work. The material mainly used in treating the wood is a solution of suitable thermo-plastics of different brands which is crystal-clear in appearance.
The archive of Thotsutmis, son of Panouphis : early Ptolemaic ostraca from Deir el Bahari (O. Edgerton)
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List of Abbreviations List of Papyrological Symbols List of Figures List of Plates List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface on Translations Bibliography 1. Introduction 2. Identification, Discovery, and History of the Archive 3. A Family Archive from Western Thebes in the Third Century BC 4. The Life and Times of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis, and His Family 5. Catalog of the Ostraca from the Archive of Thotsutmis, Son of Panouphis 6. Appendices Indices Plates
Newsletter, Number 38 (April, I960)
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It is with pleasure that we are able to include with our reports from Egypt a letter from Dr. Helen Wall-Jacquet, who held the Center’s Egyptological fellowship in 1958-59. Dr. Jacquet writes from Lower Nubia, where she went from Luxor, after having spent some time in the latter place continuing the work described in Newsletter Thirty-Six, which she began last season under "the auspices of the Center.
Newsletter, Number 62 (JUNE 1967)
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The first season of fieldwork undertaken at Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) under the auspices of the ARCE was largely concentrated on the so-called townsite, Kom el-Ahmar. Quibell, the first excavator there in the season of 1895-96, had worked chiefly on the southwest corner of the site, where a temple complex was revealed. This complex appears to cover a time range from the Archaic Period to a late phase of the Old Kingdom. The chronological spread was confirmed by token exploration of other places on the mound, which also revealed that the larger part of the mound was enclosed by a mudbrick wall.
Newsletter, Number 25 (June 26, 1957)
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Last week occurred a rather unfortunate incident which has received widespread publicity in the Egyptian papers. Dr. Charles A. Muses of the Falcon’s Wings. Press, who had been excavating at Dahshur in the area south of the Amenemhet III pyramid, was arrested at the Cairo airport charged with attempting to smuggle from the country antiquities and un-declared money. At the moment he is in the hospital following a nervous collapse at the time of his arrest, and the police are engaged in probing the matter. Professor Selim Hassan has been assigned to evaluate and determine the provenience of the objects in Dr. Muses* possession.
Newsletter, Number 43 (September, 1961)
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The response to the suggestion that brief papers be presented by members at the Annual Meeting on November 15, 1961, has been most gratifying. More papers have been offered than the time at our disposal can accommodate, and the Executive Committee has been obliged, regretfully, to exclude certain papers of great interest, to be read by title and later published in the News-letter, if those offering the contributions will agree. A number of members üho have not wished to present papers have signified their enthusiastic approval of this new departure by promising attendance at the meeting.
In response to many requests, a large part of the afternoon session will be devoted to Nubia and its salvage problems.
Newsletter, Number 44 (December, 1961)
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The Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc., held at the Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday, November 15, 1961, was attended in person by forty-four members, with an additional 89 represented by proxy, bringing the total to 133» The open sessions, at which papers were presented, were attended by an estimated 15>0 persons, some of whom expressed their interest by joining the Center.
The business meeting was called to order at 10:00 A.M. by the President, Edward W. Forbes, to whose long leadership and wise counsel the Center has been greatly indebted from the time of its foundation. He presented the following report:
An educator's handbook for teaching about the ancient world. Volume I
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With the right methods, studying the ancient world can be as engaging as it is informative. Many K-12 teachers, university instructors, and museum educators use hands-on, project-based, and experiential activities in their classes to increase student engagement and learning. This book aims to bring together such pedagogical methods and teaching activities about the ancient world for any educator to use. The teaching activities in this book are designed in a cookbook format so that educators can replicate these teaching 'recipes' (which include materials, budget, preparation time, levels of students) in their ancient art, archaeology, social studies, and history classes. They can be implemented online or in-person, in schools, universities, libraries, museums, or at home.
The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet
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The hypocephalus is still a topic seldom investigated in Egyptology. Between 1961 and 1998, Edith Varga studied the antecedents of the object type, discussing all practices aimed at the protection of the head up to the 4th century BC from all over Egypt.1 Through her ongoing commitment to the subject, hypocephali were ‘rediscovered’ for Egyptology. She identified no fewer than two-thirds of the examples presently known, and published these in several articles.2 The analysis and typology of these amuletic objects at the time when they appeared in the 4th century BC remained for a further research project. In my work, I aimed at continuing the research of Edith Varga, and at presenting the catalogue of hypocephali to the public.
Newsletter, Number 41 (March, 1961)
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The summer was a hot and somnolent one in Egypt this year, and as usual, during the hot season, most archaeological activities ceased. An exception was made for the removal of three temples in the northern stretch of Lower Nubia, where the high water of the Aswan reservoir covers the monuments for the greater part of the year, only receding in the very hottest months of the summer. This year, in the baking heat that afflicts Upper Egypt and Nubia in the summer, engineers and work gangs of the Antiquities Department laboured for two months to dismantle and remove the small temples at Debud, Tafa, and Qertassi. These are all built-in masonry and are small enough so that the blocks can be numbered as removed, to be loaded on barges, and carried away for re-erection outside the zone to be flooded by the High Dam's reservoir. The work was done in good time, despite the torrid heat, and represents the first real step in the salvage problem with which the world's Egyptologists are so concerned.
Remove that Pyramid! studies on the archaeology and history of predynastic and pharaonic Egypt in honour of Stan Hendrickx Remove that Pyramid! studies on the archaeology and histo...
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This volume in honour of the career of Stan Hendrickx includes 47 contributions that deal with the archaeology and history of Predynastic and Pharaonic Egypt. Given the influential role that Stan Hendrickx plays on our current knowledge of the Predynastic and Early Dynastic periods, many of the articles cluster in that time frame and deal with topics in material culture, iconography, and archaeology of early Egypt (pottery, stone vessels, lithics, state formation, and rock art). Contributions covering the pharaonic period primarily consist of ceramic studies, another field of expertise of Stan Hendrickx. Several articles focus on sites such as Elkab, Dayr al-Barsha, Adaima, and the Dakhla Oasis, where Stan Hendrickx has been involved as an archaeologist and a ceramologist.
Newsletter, Number 54 (JUNE, 1965)
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During three months spent in Egypt early this year, I had an opportunity to visit the sites at which the Center is sponsoring excavations: Fustat, Gebel Adda, and Mendes. It is hard unless one has seen them, to imagine three localities so widely different in character.
Fustat is and has been for centuries, a vast city dump, a desert wasteland bordered by the slums of Old Cairo and haunted by scavengers, humans, and canines. It is a windy, dusty, and malodorous site, cold and sometimes wet in winter, hot and fly-ridden in spring, never a very pleasant place in which to dig. It was, however, the place in which the first Arab conquerors of Egypt established their capital, and the excavators feel rewarded for discomfort by the discoveries they are makîng concernîng the old city and the way of life followed by the people who lived in it. They are working against time, for Fustat is being engulfed by modern Cairo. The area is being reclaimed to provide housing for some of the millions who live in the modem capital of Egypt. One is always aware, at Fustat, of those crowding millions, avid of present needs, knowing and caring little, if anything, of the past.
Newsletter, 7 April 1955
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On January 28, Mr. and Mrs. Dimmick, Dr. R. F. S. Starr of the State Department, and the Director visited the Cheops Boat Grave Just when the last of the forty-one main ceiling blocks was raised, thus permitting for the first time a completely unobstructed view of the boat's stern. Two large curved panels from the prow in beautiful condition are directly underneath, and in the south-east corner stands a wooden beam, pierced near the top by a slotshaped hole which still houses a piece of rope forming a clue as to the use of these holes which dot most of the woodwork. Further west, two short, wide, curved boards, lying a few inches apart, are connected by several strands of quarter-inch rope which pass through the oblong slots cut into these boards. Thus it appears that all wooden beams, girders, and planks which show these holes were once laced together with rope. Quantities of it are lying in a pile against the eastern end of the south wall of the chamber, partly covered with matting.
Papers from the fifty-third meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies : held at the University of Leiden, from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July 2019
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This paper introduces the main results of the excavation at the site of Yughbī during the last season of fieldwork of The Crowded
Desert Project in the north-west of Qatar between March and April 2018. While the area of Yughbī was occupied for a long period
of time, this paper focuses on a small number of stone buildings that dated mainly to the Umayyad period (AD 661–750), but also
with reference to a more extended occupation that may be dated as early as the late Sasanian-Rāshidūn caliphate period (AD
498–661), and perhaps even earlier, to the early ‘Abbāsid period (c. AD 750–900). The Umayyad phase includes stone buildings
that served as a permanent or semi-permanent base for a nomadic group in the process of sedentarization, or recently settled at
the site. The finds of pottery, glass, metals, and other materials indicate that the community living at the site was well integrated
within a wider landscape that included economic interests in the desert and the sea, and even long-distance connections.