Mark Lehner & Pierre Tallet lecture at MFA Boston

City of the Pyramids: New Discoveries in Archaeology and Texts This two part lecture is free with museum admission & open to the public. To ensure admittance, reserve your tickets in advance either through the tickets link on the MFA website or by...

Mark Lehner interviewed by CNN

Dr. Mark Lehner was interviewed by CNN about his new book, Giza and the Pyramids, and about his decades of work on the Giza Plateau. He discusses how he got his start studying the Great Sphinx, alternative theories, and the recent discoveries at Wadi al-Jarf. Read the...

ARCE Sphinx Project 1979-1983 Archive

The ARCE SPHINX PROJECT (1979-1983) aimed to produce scale drawings (plans and elevations) of the Great Sphinx of Giza, where no scale drawings of this unique monument had been produced before, to map the greater Sphinx site, including three ancient Egyptian temples...

“Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History” out now

In this new book Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass provide insights into the history of the Giza plateau based on more than 40 years of excavating and studying the site. Though today the pyramids and the Sphinx rise from the desert, isolated and enigmatic, they were once...

Introducing a new website all about Memphis!

At memphisegypt.org, we hope to bring Egypt’s ancient capital city alive once more and to share Memphis’ many stories with audiences near and far. This bilingual English-Arabic website has information for both visitors and researchers about the sites and...