American Research Center in Egypt

The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a scholarly institution dedicated to supporting the conservation of Egyptian antiquities and research in Egyptology, Coptology, and all periods of Egyptian history. The center is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).[1] Previous and current 990 forms that detail the organization's financial holdings and the compensation of its Executive Director and other key personnel are available to the public.

American Research Center in Egypt
Established1948
Staff31 in Egypt, 8 in the United States
Endowment$90,557,784
AddressUS Office, 909 North Washington Street, Suite 320 Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Location
Cairo Office, 2 Midan Simón Bolívar Garden City, Egypt 11461
Websitehttp://www.arce.org/

History

ARCE was founded in 1948 in Boston by Edward W. Forbes, then the director of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and Sterling Dow, then president of the Archaeological Institute of America, with the intention of creating a research center in Egypt on the model of similar institutions in Greece and Rome. The center's Egyptian headquarters opened in 1951 in an office at the Office of U.S. Information and Educational Exchange in the American Embassy in Cairo. Throughout its early years, the center received substantial funding from the United States Department of State. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in 1992, ARCE was chosen by USAID to administer an American-funded initiative to restore damage done to Egypt's tangible cultural heritage. This work, which resulted in the completion of more than fifty conservation projects throughout Egypt, was directed by Robert K. Vincent, Jr. until his death in 2007.[2]

Present activities

ARCE's headquarters are in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo, with a subsidiary office in Luxor. The United States headquarters are in Alexandria, Virginia. The Cairo Center features a specialist research library and conference facilities and is intended as a base for academics from the United States and elsewhere when conducting research in Egypt. ARCE also awards fellowships for research in Egypt and works with the Supreme Council of Antiquities and its institutional members in conserving and excavating sites around Egypt, with notable past projects including the Red Monastery, the Temple of Khonsu, and the Temple complex at Luxor.

Affiliate institutions

References
  1. "American Overseas Research Centers". Council of American Overseas Research Centers. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  2. Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage, Danforth, R. ed. ARCE 2010
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