SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : FALL 2018 | ISSUE 2
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Looking to the Future -- Key Places in this Issue -- Fieldwork Season: New & Returning Expeditions -- Updates from the Current Season -- In Memoriam / William Kelly Simpson -- celebrating the Conservation Field School Graduates in Luxor -- Recap: April 2018 Annual Meeting -- Experiencing 3,000 Years of Ancient Egypt in Los Angeles -- International Archaeology Day Events -- Caroline Williams and Jen Thum -- A Road Trip Along the Nile.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2018 | ISSUE 1
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Then & Now: 70 Years of the American Research Center in Egypt -- Greetings from the Director for Egypt -- Capturing Ancient Egypt in Three Dimensions -- The Founding of an American Research Center in Egypt -- Reviews of Publications in Egyptology -- The Hidden Treasures: Hearst Museum Egyptian Collection -- U.S. Congressional Delegation Visits Luxor -- Celebration of ARCE at the U.S. Embassy -- Donor Support -- Board & Staff -- Research Supporting Members -- Financial Statements -- The ARCE Houseboat Fostat.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : FALL 2019 | ISSUE 4
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Sustainable Heritage -- Key Places in this Issue -- ARCE's 2019 AEF Cohort Announced -- Reading Seeds (Giza Botanical Database Spreads Knowledge Worldwide) -- U.S. Updates -- Egypt Updates -- Institutional Members -- Food For Thought -- Donor Support -- Statement of Financial Position -- Statement of Activities -- Ideology Never Cooked a Duck.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2019 | ISSUE 3
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Key Places in This Issue -- Early New Kingdom Discoveries at Tell Edfu -- From Basement Crates to Gleaming Glory -- Diverse Insights at the Cairo Center -- Northern California Student Grant Honors Dr. Eugene Cruz-Uribe -- Peter Lacovara and Elizabeth Hart -- Saving the Monuments of Nubia.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : FALL 2020 | ISSUE 6
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Ancient Spaces and Lives -- Key Places in this Issue -- ARCE’s Digital Leap -- Weni Rediscovered (An International Team Comes Together to Offer a Fresh Look at an Ancient Life) -- Egypt Updates -- U.S. Updates -- Antiquities Endowment Fund -- Institutional Members -- Brooke Elizabeth Norton and Margaret Taylor Dean -- Donor Support -- Did You Know? Before There Was Scribe.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2020 | ISSUE 5
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Objects, Art, and Architecture -- Key Places in this Issue -- New Projects, a Symposium, a Member Tour, and More -- Tutankhamun’s Sticks and Staves -- U.S. Updates -- Egypt Updates -- Institutional Members -- Antiquities Endowment Fund -- Ramesside Queens' Tombs (The Book of the Dead and the Development of the Deir el-Medina Iconographic Tradition) -- Donor Support -- Statement of Financial Position -- Statement of Activities -- How do we Create Suitable Spaces for Discourse?
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : FALL 2021 | ISSUE 8
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Key Places in this Issue -- Projects and Programs Abound! -- Basatin: Reviving a Forgotten Past -- Egypt Updates -- U.S. Updates -- Antiquities Endowment Fund -- Institutional Members -- In Conversation with Li Guo -- Donor Support.
SCRIBE : The Magazine of The American Research Center in Egypt : SPRING 2021 | ISSUE 7
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Key Places in this Issue -- A Year of Launches -- A Three-Dimensional Survey (Digital Preservation at the White Monastery in Sohag) -- Egypt Updates -- U.S. Updates -- Antiquities Endowment Fund -- Institutional Members -- Meet ARCE's Current Cohort -- Donor Support -- Statement of Financial Position -- Engineering in the Ottoman-Egyptian Nile Valley.
Why did ancient states collapse? : the dysfunctional state
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Ancient states were rooted in agriculture, sedentism and population growth. They were fragile and prone to collapse, but there is no consensus on the causes or meaning of collapse, and there is an ongoing debate about the importance, nature and even existence of state-wide collapse
Explanations of collapse in terms of competing mono-causal factors are found inferior to those incorporating dynamic, interactive systems. It is proposed that collapse should be explained as failure to fulfil the ancient state’s core functions: assurance of food supplies, defence against external attack, maintenance of internal peace, imposition of its will throughout its territory, enforcement of state-wide laws, and promotion of an ideology to legitimise the political and social status quo.
To fulfil these functions certain necessary conditions must be met. The legitimacy of the political and social status quo, including the distribution of political power and wealth, needs to be accepted; the state should be able to extract sufficient resources to fulfil its functions such as defence; it must be able to enforce its decisions; the ruling elite should share a common purpose and actions; the society needs to reflect a shared spirit (asibaya) and purpose across elites and commoners who believe it is worthy of defence.
Weaknesses and failure to meet any condition can interact to exacerbate the situation: maladministration, corruption and elite preoccupation with self aggrandisement can induce fiscal weakness, reduced military budgets and further invasion; it can induce neglect of key infrastructures (especially water management). Inequality, a commonly neglected factor despite ancient texts, can erode asibaya and legitimacy and alienate commoners from defence of the state.
These themes are explored in relation to the Egyptian Old Kingdom, Mycenae, the Western Roman Empire (WRE), and the Maya. They all exhibit, to varying degrees, weaknesses in meeting the above conditions necessary for stability. (Some of the explanatory political and social factors involved have modern analogies but that issue is not examined).
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.
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 110 (Fall 1979)
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Contents:
THE ISLAMIC PREACHER: HIS ROLE IN THE MOSQUE AND COMMUNITY / by Patriek Daniel Gaffney--
THE FILM-SONGS OF UMM KALTHUM, MUflAMMAD »ABD AL-WAHHÄB, FARID AL-*AfRASH AND LÂYLÄ MURAD / by John A ndrus--
COPTIC STUDIES IN CAIRO: A REPORT / by Leslie S.B. MacC oull--
THE AMARNA PERIOD OF EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY EGYPT: BIBLIOGRAPHY SUPPLEMENT 1978 / by Edward K. Werner
Newsletter, Number 112 (FALL 1980)
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The ARCE Sphinx Projects A Preliminary REPORT, Mark E. Lehnev in collaboration with Jamee P. Allen and K. Lal Gauri--
Dialect Features in Middle Kingdom iNSCRIPTIONS., Edmund S. Meltzer--
Al-ÜAYLAMI'S "LoVE TrEATISE'S Joseph Bell--
Archaeology in Egypt 1980--
Fellows' Research: Brief Reports--
ARCE News and Announcements.