You cannot search on archived issues, they are excluded from it. You can only get to archived issues if you have the direct link to them.
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For the benefit of others , if you are using Jira on-premise (Data Center) then you can search for archived issues by selecting the top navigation menu Issues > Archived issues. The filter options are limited but "Project" is one of them (Summary is not an option):
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