Fogg Museum Will Be Headquarters Of New Egyptian Research Center

Fogg Museum will be the American headquarters of a new center for the study of Nile River civilizations. The center will open in Cairo early in 1951.

Similar to American schools of study already established in Rome, Athens, and North Africa, the Egyptian project will serve both as a research and teaching center for scholars and qualified students from the United States, Egypt, and other countries.

Director of the center in Egypt for 1950-51 will be William S. Smith '28, lecturer on Fine Arts. A member of a Harvard expedition to the pyramids for ten years, Smith is the author of a history of Egyptian sculpture and painting.

The American Research Center in Egypt, which is sponsoring the new project, was organized a year ago. Edward W. Forbes '95, director of Fogg Museum, emeritus, is its president, and Sterling Dow '25, Hudson Professor of Archaeology, is secretary.

Older American schools in Rome, Athous, Bagdad, Jerusalem, and North Africa, founded by the Archeological Institute of America, will aid the work of the center. The Oriental Institute of Chicago will make Laxer House, which contains one of the finest libraries is Egypt, available to the new venture.