by aera | Feb 16, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Mary Anne Murray A bucket of water and a bag of dirt…an inauspicious start to a journey of discovery. This journey is an ancient botanical one and the beauty of the thing is that plants float – the key to their recovery. Indeed, the process is known as...
by aera | Feb 13, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Every other Sunday our entire team tours the site, this includes the archaeoscience people working in the Laboratory and the Villa staff (the GIS, archive and photographic teams). The excavator of each unit gives a brief overview of what he or she thinks is going on...
by aera | Feb 12, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Richard Redding We returned to the pyramids on Monday, 7 February, for a full morning of work. Three packed vehicles drove off from the Villa at 7am. We passed through the military checkpoint and headed up the to the plateau. It was eerily quiet, primarily...
by aera | Feb 10, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Amelia Fairman This is the second week into our attempt at examining the Menkaure Valley Temple, last seen with archaeological eyes by George Reisner, one hundred and one years ago. Excavation goals aside, re-visiting a site for which there are countless...
by aera | Feb 9, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Valerie Steele I arrived in Giza in the early hours of Monday morning on my first visit to Egypt. I never imagined I would visit the pyramids and yet here I am, not just visiting but doing a job I really enjoy right next to a pyramid (actually two)! What am...
