Another old news item which I missed, this one dating to the end of August.
The American Research Center in Egypt, based in San Antonio, has been awarded a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Gerry Scott III, Ph.D., director of the research center (ARCE), says the USAID grant will be used to help fund some “really large projects” that are already under way in Egypt.
Among these projects, Scott says, is the completion of the conservation of the funerary enclosure of King Khasekhemwy, the last pharaoh of Egypt’s Second Dynasty. . . .
In addition to the funerary project, the locally based ARCE also will use the USAID grant to fund the restoration of the wall paintings at the Red Monastery, a famous Christian monastery in Egypt. The walls, Scott says, are now covered with soot build-up from years of exposure to incense and candle smoke.
Additional projects to be sponsored with the new USAID grant, awarded in July, include creating a plan for site and visitation (tourist) management in Historic Cairo (the Islamic historic area); developing a museum at the ancient Coptic Monastery of St. Antony near the Red Sea; continuing the Archaeological Field School at Giza; and publishing materials about ARCE’s various activities.
In addition to the recent USAID grant, ARCE also received approval from the agency to continue its work on the Egyptian Museum Registrar Training project.
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