Watch Decoding the Great Pyramid online

In “Decoding the Great Pyramid,” AERA’s Claire Malleson, Glen Dash, Richard Redding, and Mark Lehner join Salima Ikram and Pierre Tallet to discuss the latest research into how the Great Pyramid was built and how building it transformed Egyptian society. Now PBS is...

Online lecture: Loaves and Fishes

The Egypt Exploration Society will be offering a new lecture by Dr. Claire Malleson, AERA”s Director of Archaeological Science, titled “The economy of “building” the pyramids.” This lecture will offered on January 26th and again on January 28th. When...

Member Lecture: The People Who Built the Pyramids

AERA members are invited to watch the online lecture “The People Who Built the Pyramids – How We Know” given by Dr. Mark Lehner. The lecture will premiere on Saturday, October 17 at 1:00pm ET & be available for viewing for 48 hours. Not an AERA...

Nova’s Decoding the Great Pyramid on PBS Feb. 6th

How did the ancient Egyptians engineer Khufu’s Great Pyramid at Giza so precisely, with none of today’s surveying or tools? Who were the thousands of laborers who raised the stones and how were they housed, fed, and organized? And how did mobilizing this colossal...

Richard Redding to give keynote speech at BAE 2019

AERA’s Chief Research Officer, Dr. Richard Redding, will be the keynote speaker at the Joint Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt & the International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (BAE) being held in Cairo from January 10-13, 2019....

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...