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...

Return to Memphis: Field school begins its 2nd year

In September, we began work on the second year of our heritage and training project at Memphis, Egypt’s ancient capital city. Over a three month period this fall we will be training nearly 50 Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities inspectors in cultural heritage...

AERA’s Sphinx data to go online

Mark Lehner’s 1979-1983 work with James Allen on the Sphinx Project is still the only systemic survey and architectural study of the Great Sphinx of Giza that has ever been made. The Sphinx Project’s archive includes: a stack over 5 feet long of written...

Ana Tavares to give a talk in the UK

AERA’s Co-Field Director, Ana Tavares, will be giving a talk on July 9th at the Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society.  Living in a liminal zone: The pyramid builder’s settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza This discussion highlights the architecture and layout of...

Mit Rahina 2016 Field School: Applications Open

Mit Rahina 2016 Site Management and Heritage Field-Schools Saturday 18th September to Thursday 27th October 2016 (FS3) Sunday 6th November to Saturday 17th December 2016 (FS4) Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Applications are opened to inspectors of the...