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...
by aera | Feb 1, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Rabee Eissa, SCA archaeologist One of the most interesting things that I noticed in my excavation, in what seems to be a storage building that dates to the Old Kingdom in Giza, is a concentration of ash. This ash surrounded circular mud brick silos that had...
by aera | Jan 30, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Essam Shihab, SCA Archaeologist Modern life provides clues to the past. I started the 2012 season by cleaning the houses in the north side of the Khentkawes causeway in order to record them. We defined the walls, exterior and interior, that form the houses,...
by aera | Jan 23, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Ashraf Abd el-Aziz and Dan Jones The 2012 excavation season sees a return to the Gallery Complex at AERA’s main site of Heit el-Ghurab. The immense size of the complex, which is divided into four sets of elongated galleries, is a defining feature of the...
by aera | Jan 17, 2012 | 2012 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Ana Tavares, Joint Field Director With the New Year we open a new excavation season in Giza. We have been preparing for weeks: equipment, archives, travel, and housing. Traditionally, we started on site soon after the Coptic Christmas Holiday on 7th of...
by aera | Nov 23, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Ana Tavares, Field School Co-Director After an intense eight weeks of excavation, we reached the end of the Mit Rahina field school. So, just like the palm date pickers at the end of the harvest season, we move on… In August, the date pickers set up...
