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 | Sep 20, 2013 | Archive
Leading international and Chinese archaeologists selected AERA’s excavation of the Lost City of the Pyramids (the Heit el-Ghurab site) as one of the world’s 10 major field discoveries to be honored by the inaugural session of the Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF), held...
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...
by aera | Mar 20, 2013 | 2013 Study Season, Blog
Posted by Richard Redding Why I go to the fish market at Giza is a story that is best told with photos. I work on identifying the animal bones that come out of our excavations at Giza. I use them to study animal use in the Old kingdom and to development models of the...
by aera | Feb 14, 2013 | Archive
For the first time since 2003, AERA is holding a “Study Season”, curbing excavations and analyzing results from seasons past. On January 19th, AERA Chief Research Officer and Archaezoologist Dr. Richard Redding, along with archaeobotanist Dr. Claire...
by aera | Feb 14, 2013 | Archive
Mainz, Germany – AERA Co-Field Director Ana Tavares will be one of several worldwide archaeologists at an upcoming symposium, ‘The Nile. A Natural Landscape and Cultural Landscape’ at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz. This symposium will take...
by aera | Jan 23, 2013 | Archive
Memphis, Tennessee – On Thursday February 7th, The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (IEAA), in collaboration with the Egyptology Graduate Student Association of the University of Memphis, welcome AERA Director Dr. Mark Lehner as part of an educational...
by aera | Jan 23, 2013 | Archive
Cleveland, Ohio – AERA Associate Director and Senior Epigrapher Dr. John Nolan will be speaking at the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) this weekend to mark the opening of the exhibit Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science. The traveling interactive...
by aera | Jan 23, 2013 | Archive
London, United Kingdom – Recently named an Honorary Research Associate at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Archaeology, AERA Co-Field Director Ana Tavares will be a featured guest lecturer as part of the course ‘Archaeology of Ancient...
by aera | Jan 9, 2013 | Archive
We are pleased to offer AERAGRAM 12.1 in an e-publication format. You can now read up on the OK Corral at Standing Wall Island, the Luxor Study Field School of 2011 and the recreation of an ancient house conveniently from your portable device. AERAGRAM 12.1 can be...
