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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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Tell el-Maskhuta: Preliminary Report on the Wadi Tumilat Project, 1978-1979

Edited by John S. Holladay Jr.
1982. The American Research Center in Egypt
x + 160 pages + 3 foldouts + 46 b-w plates. 29 cm
ARCE reports series 6 (Cities of the Delta, part 3)
Paper ISBN 089 003 084 7 
Distributed by Eisenbrauns
Tell el-Maskhuta was long supposed to be either the store city of Pithom mentioned in Exodus, or Succoth, one of the cities along the route of the Exodus. Beginning in 1978, a University of Toronto expedition surveyed the area with revolutionary results. Structures identified by a nineteenth-century excavator as "storehouses of the children of Israel," and dated by him to the thirteenth century BC, were found to date much later–the second and third centuries BC. The major settlement at the site dates from the late seventh century BC and seems to be connected with the first canal built through the area to carry the goods of India and southern Arabia to Mediterranean markets.

Evidence developed by the Toronto excavations suggests that the canal was once as important in world economics (and as great a cause of international conflict) as the Suez Canal. The excavations also shed new light on the origins of the Hyskos and revealed some of the earliest direct evidence of Christianity in Egypt.
  • John S. Holladay Jr, director of the University of Toronto excavations at Tell el-Maskhuta, is professor emeritus in the university's Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations.

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