by aera | Feb 21, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Ashraf Abd el-Aziz, SCA archaeologist I was talking to Ahmed Ezz, one of the team members, about when I excavated Gallery III-4 at Madient Het el-Gourab when I realized that excavation was 10 years ago and no one excavated in the gallery complex until this...
by aera | Feb 16, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Hanan Mahmoud Working in excavations requires you to be patient and record everything stratigraphically starting from modern to old. But working in trenches enables you to answer specific questions. Sometimes archaeologists have to make “shofi...
by aera | Feb 14, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Alexandra Jacobsen I was given the wonderful opportunity to return as a volunteer this year. I realized very quickly that only knowing a few words in Arabic from my last trip was not going to be enough this season. Archaeology itself is difficult but...
by aera | Feb 8, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Mohamed El-Khattib Being an outsider and not being able to communicate with the people around you makes you feel very alone. I know English but I am Egyptian and my native language is Arabic. I was given the opportunity to go to London and work with the...
by aera | Feb 1, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Rabee Eissa, SCA archaeologist One of the most interesting things that I noticed in my excavation, in what seems to be a storage building that dates to the Old Kingdom in Giza, is a concentration of ash. This ash surrounded circular mud brick silos that had...
