Site Preservation News

Grant to Protect Jordanian Archaeological Site and Educate Children

August 9, 2010

The site of Umm el-Jimal in Jordan will benefit from the AIA’s next Site Preservation Grant which will be used to ensure the long-term preservation through education and outreach.

The Importance of Education for Site Preservation

August 4, 2010

An update from the AIA’s April 2010 Site Preservation Grant winner—the Gault School of Archaeological Research

Update from AIA Site Preservation Grant Winner Heritage Watch

August 4, 2010

English classes and heritage workshops have commenced at Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia

Building a Reconstructed Chalcolithic Roundhouse on Cyprus

August 4, 2010

AIA Site Preservation Grant Kissonerga Summer 2010 Update

Saving Antiquity: How an AIA Site Preservation Grant Is Making a Difference in Cambodia

July 29, 2010

The audience at Tuesday evening’s Archaeological Institute of America presentation at Boston University confronted some stunning evidence of what the chairman of the AIA Site Preservation Committee, Paul Rissman, calls […]

AIA Site Preservation Grant Will Protect Underwater Maya Wooden Structures

June 28, 2010

The AIA announced today that the only known Classic Maya wooden structures, located in Paynes Creek National Park in Belize, will benefit from a $25,000 Site Preservation Grant.

Ben’s House: Designing History at Franklin Court, Philadelphia

May 11, 2010

AIA Site Preservation Committee member Frank G. Matero discusses designing history and the conscious production of place at the former home of Benjamin Franklin.

Italy MOU Review

May 8, 2010

Thanks to your response, the AIA sent in hundreds of letters to the U.S. Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) on your behalf. CPAC met May 6-7, 2010 to review the Memorandum of Understanding with Italy.

CPAC Hearing, Washington, D.C.: A Personal Account

May 6, 2010

The State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee met on May 6, 2010, to consider renewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the U.S. and Italy in 2001 and extended in 2006. Read AIA First Vice-President, Elizabeth Bartman’s personal account of the meeting.

AIA Site Preservation Program Launches $100,000 Pledge Drive at 2nd Annual Gala

April 29, 2010

The AIA Site Preservation program kicked off a pledge drive the night of the 2nd Annual AIA Gala in New York City.

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