AFCP
AFCP II Spring Progress Report
Having received a renewal grant for 2014 from the U.S. State Department’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, Phase I work this spring has focused on further conservation and presentation of […]
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US Ambassador Stuart Jones Visits Again
Ambassador Stuart Jones’ visits to Umm el-Jimal have served as bookends for the Umm el-Jimal House XVII-XVIII preservation field work. On April 29, 2012, the ambassador and his entourage came […]
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Double Window Preservation: The Solution
The problem of the preservation of the Double Window was described in the previous post. This post, the “Solution,” briefly describes the strategy we developed and tells the story of […]
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Double Window Preservation: The Problem
House XVIII’s double window has served as the logo for the Umm el-Jimal Project because it’s the most iconic visible remain in a site full of functional domestic architecture. The […]
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The Hole in the Roof
Several rooms in the House XVII were restored and reused by the Druze and Masa’eid Arabs early in the 20th century. A central goal of AFCP Preservation and Presentation Project […]
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US Ambassador Visits Umm el-Jimal
On Thursday morning, April 19, US Ambassador Stuart Jones and his entourage visited Umm el-Jimal to celebrate the official opening of the House XVII-XVIII Preservation Project, for which the main […]
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A Field Day for Western Easter
The first phase of the field work is the creation of access routes in and around House XVII and XVIII. For the first week, while waiting for the government to […]
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Progress Report: AFCP House XVII-XVIII Preservation
Kicked off as a January-2012 Calvin College field school and funded by the US Department of State’s Ambassador Fund for Cultural Preservation, the project to preserve House XVII-XVIII continues as […]
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