by aera | Jan 31, 2018 | Archive
City of the Pyramids: New Discoveries in Archaeology and Texts This two part lecture is free with museum admission & open to the public. To ensure admittance, reserve your tickets in advance either through the tickets link on the MFA website or by...
by aera | Nov 29, 2017 | News
Dr. Mark Lehner was interviewed by CNN about his new book, Giza and the Pyramids, and about his decades of work on the Giza Plateau. He discusses how he got his start studying the Great Sphinx, alternative theories, and the recent discoveries at Wadi al-Jarf. Read the...
by aera | Nov 14, 2017 | Featured Content, News
The ARCE SPHINX PROJECT (1979-1983) aimed to produce scale drawings (plans and elevations) of the Great Sphinx of Giza, where no scale drawings of this unique monument had been produced before, to map the greater Sphinx site, including three ancient Egyptian temples...
by aera | Oct 31, 2017 | News
In this new book Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass provide insights into the history of the Giza plateau based on more than 40 years of excavating and studying the site. Though today the pyramids and the Sphinx rise from the desert, isolated and enigmatic, they were once...
by aera | Oct 17, 2017 | Archive
At memphisegypt.org, we hope to bring Egypt’s ancient capital city alive once more and to share Memphis’ many stories with audiences near and far. This bilingual English-Arabic website has information for both visitors and researchers about the sites and...
by aera | Oct 13, 2017 | News
A new article from the Boston Globe features a discussion with Dr. Mark Lehner about his latest theories on how the ancient Egyptians used a system of canals and harbors to help build the pyramids: Read the Boston Globe article: “Did the Egyptians create a canal...
by aera | Jun 6, 2017 | News
Earlier this year, Dr. Mark Lehner worked with a documentary film crew to digitally deconstruct & recompose the Sphinx, Sphinx Temple and Khafre Valley Temple in order to help us better visualize these structures and advance our understanding of how these...
by aera | Jun 6, 2017 | 2017 Field Season, Articles, Blog, News
The 2017 Giza season consisted of an intense six weeks of study and ‘stock-taking’ in our Giza Lab. The ceramics team (Mahmoud el-Shafei and Aisha Mohammed) studied materials from relatively recent excavations – the 2012 work in Khentakawes East...
by aera | Dec 22, 2016 | News
From excavating Egypt’s ancient cities to training the next generation of Egyptian archaeologists, 2016 has been an exciting year for AERA: We continued excavations at the Lost City of the Pyramid Builders on the Giza plateau, this year focusing on the...
by aera | Dec 8, 2016 | Archive
In September, we began work on the second year of our heritage and training project at Memphis, Egypt’s ancient capital city. Over a three month period this fall we will be training nearly 50 Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities inspectors in cultural heritage...
