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12/24/2025

It‘s that time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year 🥳❤️

12/15/2025

We are so proud and thrilled to announce that our very own Sophia Schultz has won the TEA Photojournalist of the Year Award! We congratulate her on this well-earned prize.

Please swipe to see the award-winning photograph, which also serves as a sneak-peek into our important work preserving the underwater heritage site of Asopos in Greece! Keep your eyes peeled for more information about this endangered site, coming to our social media soon. Thank you so much to the European Archaeologist Magazine! Please visit their website for more information about the award. .archaeology

12/10/2025

We just returned from a thoroughly wonderful trip to Tashkent, Bukhara, and Afshona. We accomplished a lot in a short time. We officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Avicenna Public Foundation regarding our Ibn Sina Garden Initiative. We held speeches, gave presentations, and there was a lot of media coverage, too :) All in all we’re glad to report that the “Abu Ali Ibn Sina: Great Heritage and Civilization” Conference was a great success and we look forward to our continuing collaboration with our great hosts.

12/09/2025

Early in December, the people of Santa Fe turn out in large numbers to share in the Hispanic tradition of Las Posadas. A procession led by Joseph and Mary circles the Plaza, stopping along the way to ask for shelter. They are turned away from one house after another, depicted by actors standing on the rooftops at intervals. Whenever the homeowner rudely sends them away, that’s the cue for the rest of us to loudly boo them. A band follows, playing traditional hymns. Everyone participates - babies, children, lots of dogs and we all appreciate and enjoy and loudly participate in this Hispanic tradition Each time, actors on the rooftops turn them away — and that’s our cue to boo loudly. A band follows, playing traditional hymns, and everyone joins in: babies, children, families, and very enthusiastic dogs. A beautiful tradition that the whole community appreciates, enjoys, and keeps alive.

11/27/2025

Caption: Happy Thanksgiving from ARCH! We have so much to be thankful for, including you!

What are you thankful for?

11/21/2025

ARCH is very excited to be pursuing a new project in Uzbekistan, working closely with the Avicenna Public Foundation. On November 22, 2025 as part of an international roundtable we will discuss a cultural revitalization project for Afshona (more details to be revealed soon!). For now we can confirm that representatives of ARCH, Bukhara State Administration, Bukhara Medical State Institute, Department of Touristic Infrastructure of the Bukhara Region, and the Avicenna Public Foundation will be present. We thank Mr. Makhmudov, Chairman of the Board of the Avicenna Public Foundation, for his tireless efforts to make our joint vision a reality.

10/17/2025

How much do you know about medicinal plants and their traditional use? Take our quiz!!

Today, ARCH is celebrating the Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage!

Check out our Consortium for the Preservation and Advancement of Traditional Knowledge of Plants and Healing (PATH) initiative: This project preserves the intangible heritage practices of traditional healing, collecting diverse knowledge about traditional herbal medicines.

Comment how many you got right!

Information courtesy of University of Rochester Medical Center.

10/13/2025

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! We selected some artworks by Indigenous artists representing the resilience and beauty of this diverse cultural heritage. Tag your favorite artists in the comments if you like 🎨🖼️🖌️

Image One: Indigenous Woman by Martine Gutierrez, artist of Mayan descent (2018)
Image Two: Detail of Untitled by George Morrison, artist from the Grand Portage band of Ojibwe (1961)
Image Three: Antipodes by Marie Watt, artist from the Seneca Nation (2020)
Image Four: Detail of Night and Day by Duwawisioma (Victor Masayesva Jr.), artist from the Hopi Tribe (1993)
Image Five: Detail of Target by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, painter and citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (1992)

All images from the National Gallery of Art’s open access collection.

10/09/2025

Greetings from beautiful Baku, where our President, Cheryl, is having an enriching travel experience! Cheryl has explored the Shirvanshah Museum Restaurant, featuring village scenes, artwork, and even dancing! Speaking of dancing, the Formula 1 Race pit stop crew perform a dance of their own ;) In 2023, ARCH International intern Iona visited Baku to conduct field research. While there, they were able to visit the brilliant carpet museum, shaped like a carpet!!! This museum, designed by Austrian architect Franz Janz, has the largest collection of Azerbaijani carpets in the world.

Photo credits: Photos 1-8 Cheryl Benard, photos 9-10 Iona Volynets

10/08/2025

Have you ever heard of pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs? Ukrainians have been making these eggs for millenia, and they are most often created around Easter. The eggs are created using a batik method, layering wax over different color dyes. The colors and motifs have different meanings, evoking spring, Jesus, rebirth, the sun, nature, and the Ukrainian goddess Berehynia.

Repressed during the Soviet era, the practice experienced a revival after independence, and is once again threatened. The cultural practice is currently listed on Heritage Craft’s Red List of Endangered Crafts due to the war in Ukraine.

ARCH intern Iona Volynets (whose father is Ukrainian) has been creating pysanky since they were three years old. In the Spring of 2024, they created an exhibit as part of their museum studies coursework in the Sue & Leon Genet Gallery in Syracuse, showcasing some of their eggs and educating visitors about the history and significance of the practice. In addition to traditional motifs, Iona likes to create modern images, like Syracuse University’s Otto the Orange, Lisa Larson’s cats, and a stunningly creepy rendition of the Lou Reed Transformer album cover! (Photo credit: Iona Volynets)

10/02/2025

Hi, my name is Iona Volynets! Last week, I began my internship at ARCH with great excitement, and I will be posting more here in the next few months! I’m passionate about safeguarding cultural heritage in conflict and post-conflict areas, especially in Ukraine. I am currently a Marshall Scholar in the UK, where I just wrapped up an MA in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, and am beginning an MSc in Conservation of Historic Buildings at the University of Bath. I’ve attached some pictures of myself at historic sites from my travels in Uzbekistan, Egypt, the UK, and Georgia, and a picture from my favorite ever exhibit, Maria Prymachenko: Glory to Ukraine at the Ukrainian Museum in New York City! (Photo credits: Torin O’Brien, Kit Neikirk, Reyn Anderson, Ukrainian Museum staff, Josibeth Aguilera,)

09/30/2025

Happy 818th birthday to mystic, poet, and teacher Mowlānā Jalāloddin Balkhi, known in the West as Rumi!

On this day 818 years ago, Rumi was born in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan. As a young man, Rumi moved to present-day Türkiye, fleeing the armies of Genghis Khan. At only 24, Rumi became the head of his madrasah after the death of his father (what were you doing at 24?;)).

His final work, spanning twelve years of work, was a single six-volume poem of forty thousand lines written in Farsi. He now rests in the Green Tomb in Konya.

At ARCH International we are finalizing our plans for a “Rumi Garden” with new energy. The garden will become a space to explore tangible and intangible heritage, and celebrate Rumi’s transcendent work.

In honor of his birthday, explore some of his poetry, courtesy of poets.org. All sources and translators are credited below the poems.

Which poem is your favorite? Feel free to comment your favorite Rumi poem or verse!

Image 1 credit: Wikimedia commons, author unknown, retrieved from https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/mevlana-celaleddin-i-rumi. Drawing by Iona Volynets.

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