by aera | Mar 25, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
By Hanan Mahmoud (MSA archaeologist) Joining the AERA team at the beginning of March 2014 was one of my dreams. Finally, I could work in the Silo Building Complex (SBC)! I remember in 2011, after the revolution, my colleague Rabee Eissa and I worked in the Menkaure...
by aera | Mar 7, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
Using Sealing Fragments to Hear Ancient Voices by John Nolan As strange as it may sound, much of our understanding of our excavations at Giza, rests on how we interpret small, broken chunks of clay that come out of the site. These fragments come from sealings, which...
by aera | Mar 2, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
by Dan Jones Depending on the location of the site the amount of physical and visual contact an archaeologist has with everyday life going on around where they work greatly varies. This season the AERA team is continuing its excavation of the Silo Building Complex...
by aera | Mar 1, 2014 | Archive
The Town and Funerary Complex of Queen Khentkawes Thursday 6th March at 6 pm NVIC – Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Abstract and details posted on their web site The town and funerary monument of Queen Khentkawes at Giza were excavated by Selim Hassan in...
by aera | Feb 19, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
By Hoda Ossman Khalifa (Inspector, Ministry of State for Antiquities) Until these days, I did not feel the true meaning of the above words. I worked with the team during 2012, when we discovered the “Silo Building,” and it was a marvelous season. We worked...
