Flint Industries at Ancient Giza

By Tim Stevens, Lithics Analyst, and Brian V. Hunt Many people think of stone tools as strictly Stone Age technology. The fact that people used chert and other stone for tools is what defines prehistory as the Stone Age. This has led to an under-appreciation of the...

A Girl and Her Goddess

By Marie-Astrid Calmettes (Egyptologist), Jessica Kaiser (Osteologist), and Brian V. Hunt More than 2,500 years ago, a very ill young woman died and was buried at the already long-abandoned site of the city of the pyramid builders at Giza. Her grave goods included an...