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HEAR WHAT ARCE MEMBERS SAY
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| Members Betty and Bob Bussey invite you to take the next step.
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DO YOU HAVE DOUBLE VISION?
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Bring a new member to ARCE and win a free registration to the Annual Meeting or a 2-year membership on us!Want to have a bigger impact? Double ARCE's membership!Ask your friends and colleagues to become members and credit you in the Referred By field on the membership form. You'll be entered in a raffle to win.Help us grow so that we can replace lost federal funding and continue to be a positive force in Egypt supporting scholarship, conducting conservation, and providing training. If every member refers a new member between now and August 2014, we will double in size and ensure that our core programs remain intact!!!
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CALLING ALL WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT EGYPT!
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| Make a 1-2 minute video that we can feature in our emails to members about why it's important to double the membership in the next 12 months.
It can be serious or silly, just show us how you feel about ARCE and how important it is that you and others bring new members to ARCE.
Email your video or questions to [email protected].
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ARCE MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
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| If your membership expires on August 31st, please take a moment to renew now.
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WE'RE ON FACEBOOK! 
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| When you visit ARCE's Facebook page, click the "Like" button to receive all the latest project updates, events and photos posted straight to your news feed.
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ADDRESS CHANGE?
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Help us keep your mailing and email addresses current. Email changes to [email protected].
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CREATIVE REUSE OF LIMITED NATURAL RESOURCES IN 21st DYNASTY EGYPT
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How and Why did Egyptians Reuse the Body Containers of their Ancestors?
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It's natural to relegate the three R's of conservation to the 21st century, when the depletion of natural resources has made "reduce, reuse and recycle" a cornerstone of responsible environmental stewardship. But access to wood, a limited natural resource in 21st Dynasty Egypt necessitated its creative reuse, according to UCLA's Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, in this intriguing article on coffin reuse.
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THE GEBEL EL SILSILA SURVEY PROJECT
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Ancient Pathways, Causeways and Quarry Tell the Story
 | The Speos of Horemheb at Sunset. Photo: M. Nilsson.
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Known to the ancients as Khenu, the ancient site of Gebel el Silsila is divided into east and west by the Nile at its narrowest point, and is foremost famous for its many New Kingdom stelai, cenotaphs and Speos of Horemheb. Located between Kom Ombo and Edfu, it features ancient Egypt's largest series of sandstone quarries running for approximately 2.5-3 km 2 on both sides of the Nile, presenting evidence of extraction methods and transportation techniques, a wide variety of graffiti including hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Greek and Latin inscriptions, petroglyphs and elaborated pictorial representations: carved and painted commemorations dating from Prehistory and throughout all subsequent ancient periods.
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THE "TEMPLE OF MILLIONS OF YEARS"
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Excavating the Site of Tausret - Little Known Female Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty
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William Flinders Petrie's brief excavation of the site of Tausret's "temple of millions of years" in 1896 resulted in less than three pages of publication. Subsequent interpretation of his finds promoted the idea that there was nothing left of interest other than features and objects related to its foundation: trenches, stones, and deposits, all already excavated by Petrie. Since 2004, however, efforts by the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition (UAEE) have been fruitful, producing new material and shedding light on the temple itself and the female pharaoh for whom it was built.
Pearce Paul Creasman and team uncover far more than the foundation stones >>
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RESEARCHING "THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE MUMMIES"
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Fascinating Portrait of an American Lord Carnarvon
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Anyone who reads about ancient Egypt - even moderately - has come across the name of Theodore Davis, usually identified as "an American millionaire" who was either an amateur or a dilettante. Through a dozen eventful years in the Valley of the Kings (from 1902 to 1914) he was the money behind the discovery of a record eighteen tombs, including those of one-third of the 18th Dynasty kings. Yet aside from a few snide jabs about his irascible nature, almost nothing more is said about Davis. Curiosity about such a figure - an American Lord Carnarvon - and the fact that no one had ever bothered to look into his life encouraged John Adams, ARCE Orange County Chapter founder and first president, to undertake the task.
Portrait of an obscure eccentric from America's Gilded Age >>
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