by aera | May 5, 2015 | News
On March 21st, AERA celebrated the 10th anniversary of our field school program in Egypt with a party at the AERA-Egypt Center in Giza. Many of our graduates attended the celebration alongside current students, staff members, and officials from the Ministry of...
by aera | May 5, 2015 | News
Sometime around 1000 B.C.E. pig use in the Middle East declined and was subsequently religiously prohibited. Around the same time that pork fell out of favor, chickens were introduced into the area. AERA Chief Research Officer Dr. Richard Redding’s paper...
by aera | Dec 15, 2014 | News
Wishing you Happy Holidays and a prosperous and peaceful New Year from the whole AERA team From exploring Egypt’s ancient cities to training the next generation of Egyptian archaeologists, AERA’s work is made possible thanks to the support of our...
by aera | Nov 7, 2014 | Featured Content, News
The animation below shows the first photograph taken from the summit of the Great Pyramid, a stereoview photo taken by E.L. Wilson in 1882. This photo also provides the first photographic record of the site where the Lost City of the Pyramids settlement (Heit...
by aera | Oct 7, 2013 | News
by Glen Dash (An excerpt from AERAGRAM 13.2) No monument in the world has given rise to more speculation about its meaning than the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It has been said to encode “God’s unit of measurement”— the Pyramid inch—to physically represent the...
by aera | May 22, 2013 | News
The AERA Archives are now officially registered with the Library of Congress, recognized as archives and special collections libraries. As part of the registration process, our Boston and Giza Archives were given special MARC Organization Codes, which are used to...
