by aera | Feb 7, 2011 | News
AERA Director Dr. Mark Lehner’s brief interview in the February 6th issue of the Boston Globe Magazine. Click on the image to enlarge, or visit the Boston Globe Magazine’s web site at www.boston.com/magazine.
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, Lost City Project, News
Heit el-Ghurab There is a massive, ancient stone wall that stands a few hundreds yards south of the Sphinx. But because it lay partially buried and overshadowed by the pyramids and Sphinx, tourists have hardly noticed it. Known locally as the Wall of the Crow (Heit...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, Lost City Project, News
How did the ancient Egyptians feed thousands of workers at Giza? We know from ancient texts that a staple diet of bread and beer were disbursed as rations in royal labor projects. What kind of bread did the pyramid builders eat? In September and October 1993, The...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | Featured Content, GPMP Project, News
Where do you look for a lost city? Locating a feature as large as the settlement and infrastructure that accommodated the ancient Egyptian pyramid builders is very different than locating an object or a single building. Landscape analysis combined with survey is...
by aera | Oct 13, 2009 | News, Sphinx Project
The details of mapping the Sphinx Why map a statue? There is no way to understand a monument as complex as the Sphinx without examining in detail of all of its elements. This includes mapping the bedrock of the Sphinx, mapping the ancient and modern restorations, and...
by aera | Sep 14, 2009 | News
AERA’s Multinational Research Team Discovers Oldest Olive Wood in Egypt BOSTON, MA – Researchers at Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc., the premier non-profit organization conducting original archaeological research and educational programs in Egypt,...
