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