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FALL 2013
NO HUSTLE, NO BUSTLE, BUT BREAKFAST APLENTY
IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL WITH CAVEATS
STRAIGHT FROM ARCE'S ARCHIVES
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Help us replace lost federal funding and continue to be a positive force in Egypt supporting scholarship, conducting conservation, and providing training.
GIVING TUESDAY
DECEMBER 3rd

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$138 pays for a day of expedition support to Egypt
 
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ARCE BRIDGES THE EMPLOYMENT GAP IN LUXOR

Site Clean-up and an Entrepreneurial Spirit Boost the Economy and Kickstart a Brisk Breakfast Trade in Qurna
 
An empty parking lot at Karnak speaks volumes. Photo: John Shearman
There's no hustle, no bustle, no crowds or lines. No buzz, no hum, no buses in the parking lots or along the roadsides -- engines running, air conditioners blasting. No polyglot tour guides barking facts and figures, histories of monuments, or stories of pharaohs.

For the tens of thousands who depend on tourism in Luxor -- the vendors, the tour guides, the laborers, the drivers, the artisans and craftsmen, hotel staff and hawkers -- making a living and supporting a family has become a chore.
WARM WELCOME IN LUXOR

ARCE Member Expeditions Launch a New Season in Luxor 
 
Pathways are being finalized and the work at Mut Temple is nearing completion.Photo: Kathleen Scott
Another expedition season has started in Egypt and thus far, signs point to a full and busy calendar of arrivals and departures for ARCE member institutions. According to Madame Amira Khattab, ARCE Deputy Director for Research and Government Relations, interest in returning to archaeological sites is running high. ARCE sponsors the fieldwork of its Research Supporting Members by providing administrative and technical support to affiliated expeditions each season.  

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: THE QUSEIR FORT VISITORS' CENTER PROJECT 1996-1999

Heritage Conservation: Part Research, Part Archaeology 
Courtyard with round tower after heavy rains and before restoration in November 1996. Photo: Patrick Godeau

Quseir Fort was founded in 1571, as documented in a firman discovered in the Top Kapi archives in Istanbul, fifty-nine years after the Ottoman conquest of Egypt. It was one in a series of forts on both sides of the Red Sea constructed against incursions by the Portugese who were by this time a serious commercial power in the Indian Ocean and a potential threat to the Hajj routes. By the mid-eighteenth century, the fort was no longer strategically important although Quseir remained significant in trade with Arabia and the Far East.

 

By the 1990s, Quseir was the only Red Sea town preserving historic authenticity and it was attracting greater visitor numbers and new hotel investment.    

 

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