Animal Bones and the Silo Building Complex

By Richard Redding I am looking forward to arriving in Egypt on April 10th. Our research design this season has unified our excavation and material culture studies strategies. I will be looking at the animal bone from the Silo Building Complex (SBC) testing the idea...

A perfect start – Giza season 2014

By Ana Tavares – Joint Field Director We are back at Giza excavating in the Complex of Queen Khentkawes. As much as I enjoy the hustle and bustle of a large team and the energy of the field-school, this small and quieter season seems perfect.  With only a small team...

Ana Tavares to lecture at EES in Cairo

More from Memphis: Kom el-Fakhry, a Middle Kingdom settlement in context By Ana Tavares, Joint Field-Director, Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Location: The Egypt Exploration Society, The British Council, 192 El Nile street- Agouza, Cairo Sunday, 2nd February...

New Angles on the Great Pyramid

by Glen Dash (An excerpt from AERAGRAM 13.2) No monument in the world has given rise to more speculation about its meaning than the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It has been said to encode “God’s unit of measurement”— the Pyramid inch—to physically represent the...