by aera | Apr 2, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
“I feel like new born,” said field school graduate Amr Zakaria Mohammed when asked how he felt at the end of the AERA/ARCE Giza Field School. Graduation day was the culmination of eight weeks of very, very long days and hard work. The graduates, all Egyptian...
by aera | Mar 30, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
I’m preparing more posts (objects, pigments) but it’s been a very busy couple of days. There is a dinner for the Field School at the hotel tonight and we’re going to Saqqara tomorrow. So, insha’allah, I’ll get the new posts written,...
by aera | Mar 28, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
“Ceramics can tell you everything! Well, not everything but a lot.” So says AERA’s Polish ceramics team, led by Dr. Anna Wodzinska. People often ask when you work in archaeology, “What are you discovering?” They have the romantic notions about finding tombs and...
by aera | Mar 27, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
“Do artifacts ever leave Giza?” Good question. The answer is NO! Nothing ever leaves Giza. AERA collects and analyzes everything they excavate and everything goes into SCA-sanctioned storage. The Giza storeroom and lab are overseen by Dr. Mary Anne Murray. I have a...
by aera | Mar 26, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
The field school’s wireless server at the hotel only reaches far enough to put my room just outside the bubble. So I park myself outside the room with the server (not convenient for Skype). The other night I noticed I wasn’t the only one in the hall. Field school...
