Over the past seven years different aspects of the UCLA/RUG Fayum Project have been supported by institutional grants and private donors. The cumulative contributions donated by our most important sponsors are:

100.000 USD - 50.000 USD

Piers Litherland (2003-2004 Fayum Field Schools)
Egyptian Antiquities Project (2002 Fayum Field School)

50.000 USD - 30.000 USD

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG, 2003-2008 yearly contribution)
National Geographic Society (NGS, 2007-2008 prehistory
Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF, 2006/7/8 site management)

30.000 USD - 20.000 USD

Apache Oil Company (2007)
UCLA (Council on Research yearly contribution)
Deborah Arnold

20.000 USD - 10.000 USD

Steinmetz Family Fund


< 10.000 USD

Jeanne Bailey
Harris Bass
Patti and Roger Civalleri
Tracy Johnson
Art Muir
and other private donors

Dig House
Thanks to a generous corporate contribution, the Fayum Project has a wonderful work space, in the form of a laboratory/dighouse built in 2008, which contains the dining room, kitchen, bath rooms and work rooms.

dig house