by aera | Sep 16, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Rebekah Miracle (AERA GIS specialist) As the geographic information specialist (GIS) at AERA, my job is to digitally archive, synthesize and present our excavation data in ways that make it more understandable and usable to other people – both to our own...
by aera | Sep 14, 2014 | Archive
Ana Tavares, AERA’s joint field-director, will be giving a talk at the French Archaeological Institute (IFAO) in Cairo on September 17th at 6pm. The Heit el-Ghurab and Khentkawes Old Kingdom settlements at Giza: exceptions or prototypes? The Old Kingdom settlements at...
by aera | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Walid Abd Elbary Attia (MSA ceramics student) When Mr. Yasser (our teacher) taught “the ceramics and illustration team” how to draw pottery, he explained to us the pottery drawing steps and we understood his explanation very well. After he finished, I...
by aera | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Freya Sadarangani and Dan Jones Whilst the students and teachers of the Mit-Rahina Field School (MRFS) study season take the minibus each day from Giza to the work room in Mit-Rahina (Memphis) the two of us are frustratingly housebound – Dan in the Giza...
by aera | Aug 31, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Ana Tavares From Old Kingdom Giza to Middle Kingdom Memphis – a short drive to the south from AERA’s usual excavation site at Giza but a thousand years forward in time. We are pleased to be working again in the ancient capital – Memphis. In 2011...
