Kaplan RPI Program Supports Restoration of Yemen’s Islamic Heritage
Through the RPI program, the Daw’an MudBrick Architecture Foundation is restoring an Islamic shrine damaged during Yemen’s ongoing conflict.
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Aug 11, 2020
Yemen Finds Hope in Its Heritage
Yemen’s heritage professionals are providing hope that the country’s shared past will prove far more durable than its current divisions.
Aug 6, 2019
From the Ashes: Salvaging Yemen’s Destroyed Past through the Kaplan RPI Program
Local volunteers excavating through rubble to find objects buried under the destruction of Yemen’s Dhamar Museum. This CAORC Field Note...
Jun 5, 2019
CAORC Requests Proposals for Urgent Cultural Heritage Protection Efforts in Yemen
As part of the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative, CAORC, in partnership with the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, announces...
Jun 4, 2019
Saving Syria’s Archaeological Treasures, One Object at a Time
Documenting pottery recovered from an ancient burial cave near Idlib, Syria. In June 2015, when the Syrian civil war was raging across...
May 29, 2019
Video: Training Gaza's First Rapid-Response Heritage Preservation Team
In August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural...
May 23, 2019
Preserving Cairo’s Islamic Tiles: The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project
A member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed...
Feb 27, 2019
CAORC Co-Sponsors Event "Culture at Risk – Yemen's Heritage Under Threat"
AIYS President Daniel Varisco gave the event’s opening presentation, which introduced the audience to the history, peoples, and cultures...
Jan 17, 2019
Preserving Historic North African Crossroads: RPI Program Supports Urgent Documentation of Morocco
The towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful...
Jan 2, 2019
Mending the Mosaics of the Byzantine Church of Khirbet et-Tireh
This beautiful mosaic floor adorning a Byzantine-era church at the site of Khirbet et-Tireh near Jerusalem was preserved thanks to...
Aug 22, 2018
Stabilizing and Maintaining the Endangered World Heritage Site of Cyrene
Conservators with the Libyan Department of Antiquities clean and consolidate mosaics at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Cyrene. In this...
Jul 20, 2018
CAORC-Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Meets Urgent Heritage Threats in the Middle East
CAORC’s Responsive Preservation Initiative helps preserve cultural heritage sites across the Middle East that are under urgent threat....
Jun 13, 2018
Preserving and Modelling Egypt’s Wadi el-Hudi for the World
Fig. 1: An aerial view of the well-preserved but now threatened mining site of Wadi el-Hudi in Egypt’s Eastern Desert. Photo courtesy the...
May 24, 2018
Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative Helps Conserve Precious Bronze Age Cargo
Conservator Asu Selen Özcan photographs a Bronze Age copper ingot recovered more than 50 years ago from the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck off...
May 3, 2018
Call for Applications: Grants to Preserve Yemen's Cultural Heritage
CAORC is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative (RPI). The program is designed...
Mar 27, 2018
Grantees Announced: RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources Program
CAORC is pleased to announce the second round of award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage...
Dec 6, 2017
CAORC Announces RPI for Cultural Heritage Resources Program Awardees
CAORC is pleased to announce the first award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. The...
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