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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 scholarly research center in Egypt.
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 2007–present; Assistant / Associate Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Northern Arizona University, 1989–1998; Assistant Professor of Egyptology, Brown University, 1983–1988; Editor, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, from July 2008
That year, Parker also began his service as a founding trustee of the American Research Center in Egypt. Parker's primary interests were in ancient science and mathematics . In 1951, he traveled to Egypt to examine monuments linked to ancient astronomy, and in subsequent years studied papyri at Paris , Florence , Vienna , Copenhagen and Oxford ...
AUC Libraries and Learning Technologies [1] (LLT) is a school of the American University in Cairo.It is located on the University’s New Campus, in New Cairo, Egypt.. LLT is composed of several units: the Main Library, the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL; includes University Archives and Records Management), [2] and the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT).
[30] [a] Its main purpose was to show off the wealth of Egypt, with research as a lesser goal, [24] but its contents were used to aid the ruler of Egypt. [32] The exact layout of the library is not known, but ancient sources describe the Library of Alexandria as comprising a collection of scrolls, Greek columns, a peripatos walk, a room for ...
The American University in Cairo was founded in 1919 by the American Mission in Egypt, a Protestant mission sponsored by the United Presbyterian Church of North America, as an English-language university and preparatory school. [4] University founder Charles A. Watson wanted to establish a western institution for higher education. [5]
Library associations connect libraries and library workers at the local, national, and international level. Library associations often provide resources to their individual and institutional members that enable cooperation, exchange of information, education, research, and development.
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]