AERA honored at 2013 Shanghai Archaeology Forum

Leading international and Chinese archaeologists selected AERA’s excavation of the Lost City of the Pyramids (the Heit el-Ghurab site) as one of the world’s 10 major field discoveries to be honored by the inaugural session of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF), held...

AERA Archives Officially Registered

The AERA Archives are now officially registered with the Library of Congress, recognized as archives and special collections libraries. As part of the registration process, our Boston and Giza Archives were given special MARC Organization Codes, which are used to...

Why Do I Go To The Giza Fish Market?

Posted by Richard Redding Why I go to the fish market at Giza is a story that is best told with photos. I work on identifying the animal bones that come out of our excavations at Giza. I use them to study animal use in the Old kingdom and to development models of the...

2013 Spring Season Underway!

For the first time since 2003, AERA is holding a “Study Season”, curbing excavations and analyzing results from seasons past. On January 19th, AERA Chief Research Officer and Archaezoologist Dr. Richard Redding, along with archaeobotanist Dr. Claire...

AERA/Capital Zone at German Symposium

Mainz, Germany – AERA Co-Field Director Ana Tavares will be one of several worldwide archaeologists at an upcoming symposium, ‘The Nile. A Natural Landscape and Cultural Landscape’ at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz. This symposium will take...