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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.
Hotel, Office and residential 393.8 m (1,292 ft) 382.2 m (1254 ft) [10] 80 2019 Topped out 260,000m 2 [10] Africa's tallest building 2 D01 [11] Administrative and Residential 196m 196m 49 2018 Topped out 116,621m 2: Africa's tallest residential building [11] 3 C01: Office and Administrative 190m ? 39 2018 Topped out 4 C04: Office and ...
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) is an academic journal published for the American Research Center in Egypt by Lockwood Press. [1] It was established in 1962 to publish research "into the art, archaeology , languages, history , and social systems of the Egyptian people."
A Companion to Ancient Egypt, Blackwells Companions to the Ancient World (Oxford, 2010), 491–506. “The Death of Demotic Redux: Pilgrimage, Nubia and the Preservation of Egyptian Culture,” in H. Knuf, et al., eds., Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Fs Thissen) (Leuven, 2010), 499–506.
The tomb was the last of the lost royal tombs from ancient Egypt’s famed Eighteenth Dynasty, dating back to approximately the 15th century B.C. Egypt discovers first royal tomb in over 100 years ...
The Rosetta Stone was discovered there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential for deciphering this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script.
Thebes was the capital of Egypt for long periods during the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom eras. It was the holy city of Amun and the religious capital for most of Egypt's history. The main monuments date from the period from 1500 to 1000 BCE and include colossal temples at Karnak and Luxor (pictured) and royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who has ruled with an unquestioned grip for the past nine years, won reelection to a third, six-year term in office, election authorities announced Monday.