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Earlier this summer ARCE made its eighth round of Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) grants. Among the 2010-2011 grantees is Dr. Cheryl Ward, Director of Coastal Carolina University's Center for Archaeology and Anthropology. Her project "Artifact Conservation and Storage at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, a Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea," will oversee the documentation and conservation of the remains of a 4,000-year-old ship at the ancient harbor site.

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November 15-20, 2010
Experience the wonders of Petra, the Rose Red City.

Visit the remains of the Nabatean capital, a trading nation that will astound you with its rock-cut tombs, high places of sacrifice, Byzantine churches and feats of water engineering.

Walk in the footsteps of Moses at Mount Nebo and John the Baptist at the River Jordan.

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This summer, ARCE hosted 31 Arabic language students as part of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program funded by the United States Department of State Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in partnership with the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).

The CLS Cairo program is one of several intensive summer language programs hosted by American Overseas Research Centers to grow the number of American students learning critical foreign languages within real-world contexts.This year's class--ARCE's fifth--ranged in age from 19 to 49 and came from all over the United States.

Here, DePaul University senior Brittany Kam shares her memories of one particularly adventuresome and eye-opening day in Cairo.

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