by aera | Jul 7, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Mary Anne Murray Well, that was a long and interesting Giza Lab season! The Giza Field Lab was open from January 8th and closed its doors on May 31st. There were scheduled to be 36 specialists working in the Lab on the material culture and environmental...
by aera | May 18, 2011 | News
Be sure to catch an encore broadcast of the Writers Guild Award nominated Riddles Of The Sphinx on NOVA, Wednesday May 18th at 9:00 pm on PBS (check local listings). This documentary, filmed by Providence Pictures producer Gary Glassman, looks to uncover the truths...
by aera | May 18, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Steve LaPidus I have spent the last six weeks as a volunteer on the AERA Giza Plateau Project with some of the most interesting and knowledgeable people I have ever met. I went on a site tour set up for the team early on in the schedule. We had a chance to...
by aera | May 2, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by John Nolan It’s been a very busy 18 days for the AERA Sealings Team, consisting of Ali Witsell (University of Chicago graduate student and AERA Publications team member) and John Nolan (AERA Associate Director and Senior Epigrapher). Way back on April...
by aera | Apr 18, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Sabine Boos As everybody knows, people in ancient Egypt used stone to build their monuments and statues. What is much less known, however, is that a large number of their tools were made of stone and this holds true for the Predynastic period as well as for...
by aera | Apr 10, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Hilary McDonald Archaeological photography is a diverse field. Much of it is a waiting game dependent on sun and wind to work with everyone’s schedules. The time must be right when a full excavation space can be cleared of tools (and people) and look...
by aera | Mar 29, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Emma Johnson The 2011 excavation season might technically be coming to an end this week, but work in the archive is never finished. In the archive room at the villa, we collect and manage the documentation for every project undertaken by AERA. Our...
by aera | Mar 23, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Dan Jones As the 2011 excavation season at Khentkawes draws to a close, it is a chance for me to reflect on the past few weeks. The last week on site was very busy as we finished excavating, did extensive mapping to record the exposed archaeology, and...
by aera | Mar 21, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Claire Malleson Arriving in Cairo this time had an extra air of expectation to it. After the events of the past several weeks what might have changed? Well, not much yet! Not that affects the day to day business of archaeobotany (the study of ancient plants)...
by aera | Feb 28, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Richard Redding The horses and camels are back. As a result the pigeons have returned to Giza. Now, if we can just the tourists to comeback! For more information about the pigeons, see the earlier post “The Mystery of the...
