by aera | Apr 2, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Rebekah Miracle Even though I’ve been back home from Giza for over a week now, my work with the AERA geographic information system (GIS) isn’t over– it has just shifted into a new phase. During the excavation season, my priority was the daily digitization of...
by aera | Mar 27, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Dr. Claire Malleson After a busy season of work on materials from four areas of the AERA excavations, the Giza lab is now winding down. The ceramicists have finished their recording and drawing, the objects are all registered, sketched, photographed and...
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...
