by aera | Feb 5, 2015 | 2015 Field Season, Blog
By Virág Pabeschitz (Hungarian archaeologist) Working in Egypt a stone’s throw from the pyramids? This is a real archaeologist heaven! My first impression is that the AERA team has done a very professional and important job. This excavation associated with the...
by aera | Jan 30, 2015 | 2015 Field Season, Blog
A Season of Migration to the South By Ana Tavares (joint Field-Director) Gradually the team assembles at Giza for the 2015 excavation season. For most of us, this involves travelling south – away from cold weather, storms and snow. It is wonderful to be back in...
by aera | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
We reached the end of the 2014 Mit Rahina field-school. ‘All too short’, is the unanimous feeling of the team. But we have managed to do a lot in only 4 weeks. Our aims were to train students in advanced ceramics analysis and archaeological illustration; and analyse...
by aera | Oct 5, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Rudeina Bayoumi, Rehab Ahmed Mohamed and Aisha Mohamed Montaser (MSA ceramic students) Our supervisors in the ceramics team gave us some topics to read and discuss together the following day. They also assigned pages or topics for every one of us. One day they gave...
by aera | Sep 28, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Dr. Giulio Lucarini, University of Cambridge, UK When I spoke for the first time with Ana Tavares about the food production research project I am currently carrying out in several regions of North Africa* and, in particular, about the analysis I am doing on...
by aera | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Mahmoud Nour-Eldin Mohammed, Illustration trainee As usual, we wake up at 5:45 am to prepare ourselves for another working day. After breakfast and tea we got in the microbus on our way to the stores room at Mit-Rahina (Memphis). But this day is not like any other...
