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 25, 2012 | Archive
Des Moines, Iowa – On the heels of the Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science exhibit opening at the Science Center of Iowa (SCI), AERA Co-Field Director Ana Tavares will visit the Midwestern museum next month as the inaugural guest of its Scientist in...
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...
by aera | Nov 11, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted By Hassan Ramadan, Illustrator, SCA Ana asked me to draw many sections and profiles in the FAD* area. Every morning, I would go to my tent to prepare my things and then have a look at the site: it was so crowded, so noisy, with everyone otherwise discussing...
by aera | Oct 28, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Nesreen Maher Mohamed, MRFS student, SCA The AERA 2011 Mit Rahina Field School has allowed me the opportunity to study many disciplines, including drawing, the study of animal bones, human bones and pottery. But I am actually fascinated by archaeobotany –...
by aera | Oct 21, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Rasha Nasr, Zoo-archaeologist, SCA Archaeozoology is the study of animal remains, animal related artifacts and animal related features. The study of animal bones is important because it answers questions about the past, like who, when, what and the important...
by aera | Oct 19, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Hassan Ramadan, Archaeological Illustrator, SCA This week, I was asked to draw an elevation of two walls in the Kom el-Falhry site dating to the Middle Kingdom. So while I was drawing it, I noticed its contents. It was built with mud brick but inside it,...
