by aera | Dec 22, 2019 | News
Thanks to the support of our members and donors, in 2019 we were able to bring together specialists from around the world to search for answers about the origins and development of Egyptian civilization and help preserve Egypt’s heritage for the future....
by aera | Sep 12, 2019 | Featured Content, News
AERA’s 2019 Field Season Report: New Findings from the Menkaure Valley Temple The First and Second Temples During our 2019 Field Season, we returned to the Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT), an area crucial to our understanding of the overall settlement of the Giza...
by aera | May 29, 2019 | News
A CNN crew joined our team in March to document what it was like working on the Menkaure Valley Temple in Giza. This is the first video footage from the western part of the Temple, which until this year had been buried under sand since George Reisner last saw it 100+...
by aera | May 28, 2019 | News
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Claire Malleson, AERA’s archaeobotanist and Giza lab manager, has published her first book. In addition to her work at Giza, Dr. Malleson has been working in the Fayum for many years and her book focuses on the history of this...
by aera | Feb 4, 2019 | News
Our excavation season has just begun and we’re starting to peel back the sand that George Reisner left to cover and protect the Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT) ruins after excavating it more than 100 years ago. It’s exciting to take a look at this site with...
by aera | Feb 3, 2019 | Archive
How did the ancient Egyptians engineer Khufu’s Great Pyramid at Giza so precisely, with none of today’s surveying or tools? Who were the thousands of laborers who raised the stones and how were they housed, fed, and organized? And how did mobilizing this colossal...
by aera | Jan 2, 2019 | Archive
AERA’s Chief Research Officer, Dr. Richard Redding, will be the keynote speaker at the Joint Conference on the Bioarchaeology of Ancient Egypt & the International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt (BAE) being held in Cairo from January 10-13, 2019....
by AERA | Oct 23, 2018 | News
Editor’s Note: As AERA continues its mission of education and outreach, we delight in sharing our staff’s knowledge with new generations of students and scholars. This is especially rewarding when we have the chance to delve more deeply into an area during an Advanced...
by aera | Oct 22, 2018 | Featured Content, News
Since 1988 Ancient Egypt Research Associates has systematically collected sediment samples for flotation in order to recover macrobotanical remains from project excavations in Old Kingdom settlements on the low desert to the southeast of the Giza Plateau, Egypt. The...
by aera | Jul 6, 2018 | News
AERA’s discovery of two ancient homes near the Giza pyramids in Egypt was reported this week in LiveScience. The houses were located near an ancient port that saw goods and materials coming in from all over Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean. The structures may...
