Aug 6, 2019From the Ashes: Salvaging Yemen’s Destroyed Past through the Kaplan RPI ProgramLocal volunteers excavating through rubble to find objects buried under the destruction of Yemen’s Dhamar Museum. This CAORC Field Note is adapted from the o...
Jun 5, 2019CAORC Requests Proposals for Urgent Cultural Heritage Protection Efforts in YemenAs part of the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative, CAORC, in partnership with the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, announces its 2019 call for p...
Jun 4, 2019Saving Syria’s Archaeological Treasures, One Object at a TimeDocumenting pottery recovered from an ancient burial cave near Idlib, Syria. In June 2015, when the Syrian civil war was raging across the countryside of Idl...
May 29, 2019Video: Training Gaza's First Rapid-Response Heritage Preservation TeamIn August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural Heritage in Gaza to ...
May 23, 2019Preserving Cairo’s Islamic Tiles: The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments ProjectA member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed Mohammed of Egypt’s Mi...
Feb 27, 2019CAORC Co-Sponsors Event "Culture at Risk – Yemen's Heritage Under Threat"AIYS President Daniel Varisco gave the event’s opening presentation, which introduced the audience to the history, peoples, and cultures of Yemen. On Saturda...
Jan 17, 2019Preserving an Historic North African Crossroads: RPI Program Supports Urgent Documentation of MoroccThe towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful Zawiya Ahansal valley o...
Jan 2, 2019Mending the Mosaics of the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-TirehThis beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to support from the J.M. Kapl...
Aug 22, 2018Stabilizing and Maintaining the Endangered World Heritage Site of CyreneConservators with the Libyan Department of Antiquities clean and consolidate mosaics at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cyrene. In this essay, Susan Kane, ...
Jul 20, 2018CAORC-Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Meets Urgent Heritage Threats in the Middle EastCAORC’s Responsive Preservation Initiative helps preserve cultural heritage sites across the Middle East that are under urgent threat. Photo of traditional Y...
Jun 13, 2018Preserving and Modelling Egypt’s Wadi el-Hudi for the WorldFig. 1: An aerial view of the well-preserved but now threatened mining site of Wadi el-Hudi in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. Photo courtesy the author. In this ess...
May 24, 2018Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Helps Conserve Precious Bronze Age CargoConservator Asu Selen Özcan photographs a Bronze Age copper ingot recovered more than 50 years ago from the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck off the southwestern coa...
May 3, 2018Call for Applications: Grants to Preserve Yemen's Cultural HeritageCAORC is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative (RPI). The program is designed to aid in the preserv...
Mar 27, 2018Grantees Announced: RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources ProgramCAORC is pleased to announce the second round of award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. Pictured: membe...
Dec 6, 2017CAORC Announces RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources Program AwardeesCAORC is pleased to announce the first award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. The RPI program is design...
