by aera | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
We reached the end of the 2014 Mit Rahina field-school. ‘All too short’, is the unanimous feeling of the team. But we have managed to do a lot in only 4 weeks. Our aims were to train students in advanced ceramics analysis and archaeological illustration; and analyse...
by aera | Oct 5, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Rudeina Bayoumi, Rehab Ahmed Mohamed and Aisha Mohamed Montaser (MSA ceramic students) Our supervisors in the ceramics team gave us some topics to read and discuss together the following day. They also assigned pages or topics for every one of us. One day they gave...
by aera | Sep 28, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Dr. Giulio Lucarini, University of Cambridge, UK When I spoke for the first time with Ana Tavares about the food production research project I am currently carrying out in several regions of North Africa* and, in particular, about the analysis I am doing on...
by aera | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Mahmoud Nour-Eldin Mohammed, Illustration trainee As usual, we wake up at 5:45 am to prepare ourselves for another working day. After breakfast and tea we got in the microbus on our way to the stores room at Mit-Rahina (Memphis). But this day is not like any other...
by aera | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Dr. David Jeffreys (director Survey of Memphis, Egypt Exploration Society) Everything is coming along very nicely with this advanced Mit Rahina field school, with an enthusiastic and highly committed group of students and their typically professional, critical but...
by aera | Sep 16, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Rebekah Miracle (AERA GIS specialist) As the geographic information specialist (GIS) at AERA, my job is to digitally archive, synthesize and present our excavation data in ways that make it more understandable and usable to other people – both to our own...
by aera | Sep 14, 2014 | Archive
Ana Tavares, AERA’s joint field-director, will be giving a talk at the French Archaeological Institute (IFAO) in Cairo on September 17th at 6pm. The Heit el-Ghurab and Khentkawes Old Kingdom settlements at Giza: exceptions or prototypes? The Old Kingdom settlements at...
by aera | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Walid Abd Elbary Attia (MSA ceramics student) When Mr. Yasser (our teacher) taught “the ceramics and illustration team” how to draw pottery, he explained to us the pottery drawing steps and we understood his explanation very well. After he finished, I...
by aera | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Freya Sadarangani and Dan Jones Whilst the students and teachers of the Mit-Rahina Field School (MRFS) study season take the minibus each day from Giza to the work room in Mit-Rahina (Memphis) the two of us are frustratingly housebound – Dan in the Giza...
by aera | Aug 31, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Ana Tavares From Old Kingdom Giza to Middle Kingdom Memphis – a short drive to the south from AERA’s usual excavation site at Giza but a thousand years forward in time. We are pleased to be working again in the ancient capital – Memphis. In 2011...
