An Egyptian Sampler
The NEH has funded dozens of projects that help bring the knowledge and civilization of ancient Egypt to light. Here are some of the more recent Endowment-supported projects.

Egyptian Connections
A two-year project on ancient Egypt for thirty elementary school teachers from Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Organized by the Galef Institute in Los Angeles.

Egyptology Today
A three-week summer institute and lecture series on ancient Egypt for twenty elementary and secondary school humanities teachers from Long Island and Westchester County schools in New York and selected schools in Arizona. Organized by Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus.

The Ancient Egyptian Royal Tale
A fellowship for Antonio Loprieno of University of California, Los Angeles.

Literary Quarrels in Alexandria and Rome involving Callimachus, Lucillius, Valerius Cato, and Horace.
A fellowship for John Morgan of the University of Delaware.

The Thrones, Chairs, and Stools from the Tomb of King Tutakhamun
A fellowship for independent scholar Marianne Eaton-Kraus.

The Abbot Shenute of Egypt on Social Types: A non-Greco-Roman Understanding of Human Diversity in Late Antiquity
A dissertation fellowship for Michael E. Foat of Brown University.

Travel, Trade, and Progress in Ancient Egypt and Phoenicia
A younger scholar fellowship for David G. Gurley of Bard College, New York.

Apostolicity and Power: A Critical Study of the Coptic Acts of John by Prochons
A younger scholar fellowship for Robert J. Bates of Gordon College, Massachusetts.

Society and Culture in Roman Egypt
A summer seminar for college teachers organized by Columbia University.

The Coptic Synaxeis Codex in Berlin's Egyptian Museums
A summer stipend to Paul A. Mirecki of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Reconstructing and editing a Coptic Book (P20915) in the Berlin Egyptian Museum
A summer stipend to Charles W. Hedrick of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield.

Writing History from Papyri
A summer stipend to Roger S. Bagnall of Columbia University.

Allegorical Interpretation in Origen of Alexandria
A summer stipend to John D. Dawson of Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

Temples, Tombs, and the Egyptian Universe
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum on ancient Egyptian Art from the Old Kingdom, circa 2670 B.C. to the end of the Ptolemaic period in 30 B.C.

The Brilliance of Eternity: Ancient Egypt in Faience
A traveling exhibition, catalog, video and public programs on the cultural significance of Egyptian objects made of faience, a glazed composite of powdered quartz. Organized by the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

Reinstallation of Ancient Egyptian Art (Dynasties XI- XVIII)
The reinstallation at the Brooklyn Museum includes gallery guides, CD-ROM stations, and public programs relating to their Egyptian Art collection, circa 2040-1350 B.C.

Reinstallation of the Egyptian Collection of the Walters Art Gallery
A reinstallation of the collection and support for educational public programs related to the collection.

Advanced Papyrological Information System
The creation of an integrated information system for Internet access to texts, records, bibliographies, and images of papyri collections held by major repositories in the United States. Produced by Columbia University.

Cataloging the Papyri Collections
The cataloging, conservation, and conversion to digital format of Duke University's one thousand papyri from the third century B.C. to the eighth century A.D.

Documentation, Analysis, and Preparation for Publication of Finds from the Pyramid Temple of King Ahmose at Abydos, Egypt
Analysis of the ceramics and carved stone relief sculpture found on the pyramid Temple of Ahmos, Circa 1550-1525 B.C.

Giza Mastabas, 5: Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, by Kent Weeks
Publication by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, of a catalog that presents the epigraphic and decorative evident from an ancient Egyptian tomb at Giza.

A Giza Cemetery Excavation: Life in an Egyptian Cemetery
Interpreting and excavating of state officials' tombs from the Old Kingdom (2600-2250 B.C.) in the cemetery at Giza.


Humanities, January/Febuary 1999, Volume 20/Number 1