Through the RPI program, the Daw’an MudBrick Architecture Foundation is restoring an Islamic shrine damaged during Yemen’s ongoing conflict.

Yemen’s heritage professionals are providing hope that the country’s shared past will prove far more durable than its current divisions.

Local volunteers excavating through rubble to find objects buried under the destruction of Yemen’s Dhamar Museum. This CAORC Field Note...

As part of the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative, CAORC, in partnership with the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, announces...

Documenting pottery recovered from an ancient burial cave near Idlib, Syria. In June 2015, when the Syrian civil war was raging across...

In August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural...

A member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed...

AIYS President Daniel Varisco gave the event’s opening presentation, which introduced the audience to the history, peoples, and cultures...

The towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful...

This beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to...

Conservators with the Libyan Department of Antiquities clean and consolidate mosaics at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cyrene. In this...

CAORC’s Responsive Preservation Initiative helps preserve cultural heritage sites across the Middle East that are under urgent threat....

Fig. 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...

Conservator Asu Selen Özcan photographs a Bronze Age copper ingot recovered more than 50 years ago from the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck off...

CAORC is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative (RPI). The program is designed...

CAORC is pleased to announce the second round of award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage...

CAORC is pleased to announce the first award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. The...