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From the Ashes: Salvaging Yemen’s Destroyed Past through the Kaplan RPI Program

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

Preserving Cairo’s Islamic Tiles: The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project

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...

Mending the Mosaics of the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh

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

Stabilizing and Maintaining the Endangered World Heritage Site of Cyrene

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

CAORC-Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Meets Urgent Heritage Threats in the Middle East

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

Preserving and Modelling Egypt’s Wadi el-Hudi for the World

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...

Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Helps Conserve Precious Bronze Age Cargo

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

Call for Applications: Grants to Preserve Yemen's Cultural Heritage

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

Grantees Announced: RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources Program

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

AIAS Organizes Exhibit of Afghan Paintings: "Splendors of Medieval Timurid Art of Afghanistan"

Press Release from the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies: The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) is pleased to...

CAORC Announces RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources Program Awardees

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

ARCE Archaeologists and Projects Featured in new USAID Video

Check out this beautiful short film from USAID/Egypt entitled, "The Sons of Luxor: Unearthing Egypt's past for a brighter future,"...

ACOR Director Participates in Special Visit to Umm al Jimal by U.S. Ambassador to Jordan

At the invitation of the U.S. Embassy, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Director Barbara Porter participated on 9 June 2015 in...