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Over the last thirty years, ARCE has published more than forty catalogues, conference proceedings, bibliographies, anthologies, excavation reports, and critical editions. The publications attest to the range of scholarship undertaken by scholars and institutions in Egypt under ARCE's auspices, and to the wealth of the nation's artistic, architectural, scientific, literary, and religious culture.

A Focus on Conservation

PECH front_cover_only_smallDuring the past fifteen years, ARCE has undertaken an extraordinary new mission to preserve the cultural heritage of Egypt. With generous grants from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), more that fifty conservation projects have been completed, spanning many time periods and geographic regions within Egypt. Documentation and publication of these valuable projects are an ongoing priority.

In 2002 Yale University Press produced the first of these publications. Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Antony at the Red Sea by Elizabeth Bolman, documents and studies the extraordinary Coptic art revealed during conservation activity at the monastery. A follow-on volume, The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit at the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt by William Lyster continues the scholarly exploration of the early Christian monastic community and the artwork it produced. This latest book was released in 2008 by Yale University Press.

The American University in Cairo Press' ARCE Conservation Series presents other dramatic ARCE conservation activities. The series began with The Monuments of Historic Cairo by Nicholas Warner published in 2005. Volume 2, Quseir: An Ottoman and Napoleonic Fortress on the Red Sea Coast of Egypt by Charles Le Quesne, and Volume 3, Villa of the Birds: the Excavation and Preservation of the Kom al-Dikka Mosaics by Wojciech Kolataj, Grzegorz Majcherek, and Ewa Parandowska are available from AUC Press. Volume 4, Babylon of Egypt: The Archaeology of Old Cairo and the Origins of the City, by Peter Sheehan, was released in October 2010.

For those readers interested in a comprehensive overview of the many ARCE conservation projects within one volume, ARCE has published Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage, edited by Randi Danforth. This large and sumptuously illustrated publication is available now. Purchase the book>>


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Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report

Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 418 pp. ill.; includes bibliographies. 29 cm.
ARCE reports series 7
Cloth ISBN 089 003 113 4
Paper ISBN 089 003 112 6
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Quseir el-Qadim is the site of a small port on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, east of Luxor in Upper Egypt. The site was occupied during the Roman period (first and second century AD) and again, more than a thousand later, during Islamic times (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). The town served as an important link in the international trade network of both periods, involving Egypt, Yemen, East Africa, India, and, during the medieval period, the Far East.

These volumes presents the findings of three seasons of excavation, during which a first-century AD refuse dump, a Roman merchant's villa, and part of the central administrative buildings were excavated. A large section of the Islamic town was also cleared, yielding artifacts ranging from China to west Africa. The archaeological reports are supplemented by discussions of epigraphic data recovered during the excavations, a survey of a Roman gold-mining settlement and shrine 20 kilometers from the port, and a survey of the mosques in the modern town of Quseir.
  • Janet Johnson is professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute.
  • Donald Whitcomb is research associate and associate professor of Islamic and medieval archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Quseir al-Qadim 1978: Preliminary Report

Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1979. The American Research Center in Egypt
352 pp. + 57 figs + 89 plates, includes bibliographical references. 27 cm. ARCE reports series 1
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 015

  • Janet Johnson is professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute.
  • Donald Whitcomb is research associate and associate professor of Islamic and medieval archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Quseir al-Qadim 1980

Edited by Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 418pp. ill.; includes bibliographies. 29 cm.
ARCE reports series 7
Cloth ISBN 089 003 113 4
Paper ISBN 089 003 112 6
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Quseir el-Qadim is the site of a small port on the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea, east of Luxor in Upper Egypt. During Islamic times (thirteenth and fourteenth centuries) it served as an important link in the international trade network of both periods, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Located in the desert, with no agricultural hinterland, all of the basics for survival had to be imported, and the city's environment points to a considerable and continuing capital investment, probably feasible only under the impetus of a strong, imperialist government. The impression of a humble fishing village is belied by the artifactual residue of international trade, including, in addition to Egyptian ceramics, Nabataen pottery, imported majolicas from the Mediterranean, and quantities of Chinese celadons and porcelain.

These volumes presents the findings of three seasons of excavation, during which a large section of the Islamic town was cleared, yielding artifacts ranging from China to west Africa. The two volumes are supplemented by reports on epigraphic data recovered in the course of the work, a survey of a Roman gold-mining settlement and shrine 20 kilometers from the port, and a discussion of the old mosques in the modern town of Quseir.
  • Janet Johnson is professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute.
  • Donald Whitcomb is research associate and associate professor of Islamic and medieval archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Biobibliographical Survey

David A. King
1983. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiv + 98 pages + 10 plates; ills. 28 cm. Includes bibliography (pp. 75-80) and indexes
ARCE catalog series 4
Paper ISBN 0 890 030 98 7
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
More than a hundred Yemeni astronomical manuscripts preserved in the libraries of Europe and the Near East attest to an active interest in mathematic astronomy in Yemen from about the tenth century until the early twentieth century. Many of these works preserve earlier Iraqi and Egyptian sources that are no longer extant in their original forms; others shed new light on the astronomical orientation of the Ka'ba, as well as on the early history of the institution of prayer in Islam.

David King's study includes a survey of the history of Yemeni astronomy and classification of sources, as well as a list of more than fifty Yemeni astronomers, a catalogue of manuscripts in European and Near Eastern collections, and a brief analysis of the contents of each work.
  • David A. King is professor in the Institute for the History of Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library

David A. King
1986. The American Research Center in Egypt
xiv + 332 pp.; ills. 29 cm. Includes bibliography (pp. xi-xiv)
ARCE catalog series 5
Cloth ISBN 0 936 770 15 5
Paper ISBN 0 936 770 12 0
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
The Egyptian National Library (Dab al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some 2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection of medieval scientific manuscripts in the world. For more than nine years, David King and an ARCE-Smithsonian Institution team worked to catalogue these manuscripts and conducted detailed investigations of new material of particular consequence to the history of Islamic science.
  • David A. King is professor in the Institute for the History of Science at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

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