Choose the short straw…

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...

Making flour…and not only

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...

Special guest

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...

Now comes the hard part…

By Dr. David Jeffreys (director Survey of Memphis, Egypt Exploration Society) Everything is coming along very nicely with this advanced Mit Rahina field school, with an enthusiastic and highly committed group of students and their typically professional, critical but...

The Canary in the Data Mine

By Rebekah Miracle (AERA GIS specialist) As the geographic information specialist (GIS) at AERA, my job is to digitally archive, synthesize and present our excavation data in ways that make it more understandable and usable to other people – both to our own...