May 2025 – December 2025; funded by The British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

This is the second phase of ERTH – Athar Lina Climate and Heritage Project that, between 2023 and 2024, worked on the conservation of two heritage sites with manifestations of damage typical of climate-change-related heritage issues in Egypt. It used conservation projects as a basis for educational and outreach activities addressing the relationship between heritage and climate change.

The aim of ERTH2 is fourfold:

• Community participation and education through heritage summer camps for children, training for residents to design and lead tours, and community events around the sites of Yahya al-Shabih Dome and Safiyy al-Din Jawhar Dome.
• Site promotion for cultural and spiritual visitors through guided tours, public events, social media campaigns, and a new product line inspired by ERTH to support local heritage industries.
• Site presentation through an exhibition at Yahya al-Shabih Dome displaying conserved marble elements and historic graffiti, with both physical and virtual components.
• Sustainability and improved water use through studies and pilot activities to enhance groundwater reuse, energy efficiency, and income generation, ensuring the long-term conservation and operation of Safiyy al-Din Jawhar Dome’s dewatering system.

The exhibition in Yahya al-Shabih Dome presents conserved fragments and historic inscriptions discovered during conservation, enriching its cultural value and broadening visitor experience.

At Safiyy al-Din Jawhar Dome, the focus is on sustaining the dewatering system — which extracts 500 m³ of groundwater daily — and exploring innovative uses of harvested water that benefit both conservation and the community.

Through education, exhibitions, and applied research, ERTH2 demonstrates how safeguarding heritage can simultaneously support climate resilience and community well-being.

This project is carried out under the supervision of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities with funding from the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport which supports projects which protect cultural heritage at risk due to conflict or climate change, mainly in the Middle East and parts of North and East Africa.