by aera | Sep 27, 2011 | 2011 Field Season
Posted by Dr. David Jeffreys (Director of the Survey of Memphis, Egypt Exploration Society) One week into excavation and the site is certainly taking shape. The mountains of local refuse have been cleared by machine and real archaeology has begun. It is a pleasure to...
by aera | Sep 19, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Dr. Judith Bunbury (Cambridge University) I’m glad to be back in Egypt, my first visit since the revolution and a time of great optimism as well as a little uncertainty. We arrived at the site on the first day to find that it is beautifully clean and that...
by aera | Sep 19, 2011 | 2011 Field Season
Posted by Ana Tavares This week we launched the 9th AERA/ARCE field-school, the Mit Rahina Field School (MRFS). Twenty kilometers to the south of our usual excavation site, the modern village of Mit Rahina is at the core of Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt....
by aera | Jul 7, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Mary Anne Murray Well, that was a long and interesting Giza Lab season! The Giza Field Lab was open from January 8th and closed its doors on May 31st. There were scheduled to be 36 specialists working in the Lab on the material culture and environmental...
