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2024

AERA Annual Report 2023-2024
- Finding Foundations, Building for the Future
- FIELD WORK: Menkaure Valley Temple
- FIELD WORK: The Great Pyramid Scanning Project
- FIELD LAB: Old and New
- Scenes from the Field
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OI Annual Report 2023-2024
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2023

AERAgram 24:1-2
- An Alabaster Workshop for A Pyramid City
- A Specialst Story: Stone Craftsmen in Enclosure 1
- Sealingspalooza 2023
- Hetepheres, but Probably Not That Hetepheres: The First Woman at HeG
- Something Great: A day in the dig life
- In Memorium Dr. Richard Redding
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AERA Annual Report 2022-2023
- FIELD WORK: Royal Administrative Building & The Enclosures
- Great Pyramid Temple Project Finished!
- FIELD LAB: Discoveries, Learning, Insights
- Sealingspalooza!
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OI Annual Report 2022-2023
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2022
AERAgram 23:1-2
- Silos 2022: End Game at Heit el-Ghurab?
- A Tale of Two City Districts: A New Story at SWI
- Copper at Giza
- Art and Accounting of the Heb Sed: Sculptures as accounting records
- Water from Below, Water from Above: History & Climate

OI Annual Report 2021-2022
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2021
AERAgram 22:1-2
- Searching for a Royal Building Under the Soccer Field
- Acres of Bedrock: What the ancient builders’ holes tell us
- Menkaure Valley Temple 2021
- Lost But Found Again: Stamp seals and sealings from the Menkaure Valley Temple
AERA Annual Report 2020-2021
- Working through COVID, Making Discoveries
- Great Pyramid Temple Project 2020
- Objects Publication Project

OI Annual Report 2020-2021
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
2020

AERAgram 21:1-2
- Khufu’s 30-Year Jubilee: Newly Discovered Pieces of a Puzzle
- Menkaure Valley Temple: Season 2020
- The Great Pyramid Temple Project: Preserving a Monument for the Future
- Slaughter to Table: How Was Meat Cooked?
- Looking Below the Surface: Ancient Mudbrick Walls
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AERA Annual Report 2019-2020
- Adapting and Pushing On
- Menkaure Valley Temple 2020
- Field Lab 2020
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OI Annual Report 2019-2020
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2019

AERAgram 20:1
- Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple
- Broken, Buried & Bewildering: The Menkaure Valley Temple Sanctuary
- Farmers at the Heit el-Ghurab Site?
- Did Butchers Use Copper Knives at Giza?
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AERAgram 20:2
- Shorbet Kawara: An Enlightenment
- Copper at Giza: The Latest News
- An Archaeobotanical Riddle
- Foreign Trade and Heit el-Ghurab
- In Memoriam: Glen Dash & Rabea Shehat
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AERA Annual Report 2018-2019
- Answers and New Questions
- Field Season 2019: Return to MVT
- Field Lab 2019
- Return to the Sphinx Viewing Project
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OI Annual Report 2018-2019
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2018

AERAgram 19:1
- Kromer 2018: Basket by Basket
- Where in the World Is the Great Pyramid?
- Spinning and Weaving at the Pyramids
- From the Lab: Mechanics of an Influx
- Learning Animal Bone: AERA-ARCE Field School
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AERAgram 19:2
- Kromer in Context: Biography of an Ancient Dump
- Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple
- AERA Field School at Khentkawes Town
- Giza Botanical Database Online
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AERA Annual Report 2017-2018
- Teaching and Research: Putting Together Big Picture Puzzles
- Field Season 2018: The Search for Khufu
- The Search for Khufu in the Lab
- AERA Field School 2018
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OI Annual Report 2017-2018
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2017

AERAgram 18:1
- Who Built the Sphinx?
- Finding Petrie’s Marks on the Giza Plateau
- In Search of Khufu
- A Roof Over Their Heads
- How Egyptians Quarried Their Building Blocks
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AERAgram 18:2
- Voices of Memphis
- Kafr, Village of the Pyramid Sheikhs at Giza
- Bone Smashing
- David Goodman: Back to the Point of Beginning
- Sphinx Archive Project: It’s a Wrap
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AERA Annual Report 2016-2017
- Successful Endings, Exciting Beginnings
- Study Season 2017: Launching the Search for Khufu, in the Lab
- Sphinx Archive Grant Update
- Memphis Site and Community Development
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OI Annual Report 2016-2017
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2016

AERAgram 17:1-2
- Exploring a High Official’s Office-Residence
- MSCD Memphis Project: The Final Year
- In Search of the Human Hand that Built the Great Pyramid
- Mit Rahinia Museum Catalog in the Works
- AERA to Publish Archive of the Great Sphinx
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AERA Annual Report 2015-2016
- President’s Message
- Blazing a New Trail: Memphis Site and Community Development
- Food Storage, Food Preparation: Standing Wall Island Excavations
- Glen Dash Foundation Survey 2016
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OI Annual Report 2015-2016
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2015

AERAgram 16:1
- Discovery 2015: House of a High Official
- What Was the Original Size of the Great Pyramid?
- The Gallery Complex Gives Up Its Secrets
- Hidden Details Come to Light with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
- Jon Jerde: The Space In Between
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AERAgram 16:2
- Memphis Site & Community Development: Ambitious Plans, Big Challenges
- Results from the Survey of the Great Pyramid
- A Second Official’s House Discovered
- Remembering Kamal Waheed
- US Ambassador to Egypt Tours the Lost City Site
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AERA Annual Report 2014-2015
- Two Sites, Two Field Schools: Analysis & Publication and Beginners
- Excavations: Areas Standing Wall Island & AA-South
- Glen Dash Foundation Great Pyramid Survey
- Waterways & Harbors During the Old Kingdom
- Taking A Closer Look: Discoveries in the Lab
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OI Annual Report 2014-2015
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2014

AERAgram 15:1-2
- On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building
- Did Egyptians Use the Sun to Align the Pyramids?
- A Change of Address: Funerary Workshop Priests Move to New Quarters
- A Return to Area AA: Informal Seals and Sealings of the Heit el-Ghurab
- Construction Hub to Cult Center: Re-purposing, Old Kingdom Style
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AERA Annual Report 2013-2014
- Bread and Beer for Dead Kings: Piety and Politics (Silo Building Complex)
- Putting the Pieces Together (Material Culture Analysis)
- Giza’s Back Bay: Marina del Rey (Queen Khentkawes Town)
- Catching Up with Our Field School Alums
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OI Annual Report 2013-2014
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2013

AERAgram 14:1
- The Lost Port City of the Pyramids: Heit el-Ghurab reveals a new role as part of a major port of the Nile
- How the Pyramid Builders Found True North
- The First Photos Taken from the Great Pyramid Summit
- Weeds & Seeds: On the Trail of Ancient Egyptian Agriculture
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AERAgram 14:2
- PEAKIT Punches Up 3D Laser Scanning, Adds Accurate Surface Relief
- The Lost City is Named One of the Top 10 Field Discoveries
- An Ancient Egyptian Insect Repellent
- A Small Clay Label, a Bundle of Linen, and an Ancient Economic Network
- Securing AERA’s Legacy: Data Curation
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AERA Annual Report 2012-2013
- A Run of Royal Favor: History from Clay Sealings
- Dining in a High Status House: The Good Life 4th Dynasty Style
- A Rare Snapshot of Ancient Fields: Multi-Cropped Food, Fodder & Fuel
- Data Curation Project: Phase 1 Completed
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2012

AERAgram 13:1
- Memphis, A City Unseen
- Field School Grads Take The Lead
- North by Northwest: The Strange Case of Giza’s Misalignments
- GPMP Full Circle
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AERAgram 13:2
- New Angles on the Great Pyramids
- Fifth Dynasty Renaissance at Giza
- The Silo Building Complex
- Living on a Slope in the Town of Queen Khentkawes
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AERA Annual Report 2011-2012
- 2012 Field Season Excavations
- 2011-2012 Archaeological Field Schools
- Archaeological Sciences: Hippo Hip and Olive Pit
- Glen Dash Foundation Survey
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OI Annual Report 2011-2012
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2011

AERAgram 12:1
- The OK Corral
- The Luxor Study Field School
- Bringing an Ancient House Back to Life
- The Buried Basin and the Town Beyond
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AERAgram 12:2
- Solar Alignments of Giza
- GIS Brings It All Together
- Stews, Meat and Marrow
- The Mit Rahina Field School
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AERA Annual Report 2010-2011
- Khentkawes Town East
- The Luxor Study Field School
- AERA-Egypt Receives NGO Status
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2010

AERAgram 11:1
- Called Back to Luxor: AERA-ARCE Field School
- Ascending Giza on a Monumental Ramp
- Analysis and Publication Field School
- A New Field Season: A New Home
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AERAgram 11:2
- Digging Again
- Training Egypt’s Archaeological Scientists
- Double-Decker Dorms
- On The Cusp Of A New Dynasty
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AERA Annual Report 2009-2010
- Salvage Archaeology & Analysis and Publication Field Schools
- The AERA Egypt Center
- Capital Zone Walkabout 2010
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OI Annual Report 2009-2010
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2009

AERAgram 10:1
- 10, 20, 30 Years: Mark Lehner Reflects on a Career in Archaeology
- In Memoriam: Mahmoud Kirsh
- Daily Life of the Pyramid Builders
- AERA’s New Home
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AERAgram 10:2
- Valley Complex for a Queen
- The 2009 Field School
- Teaching Ceramics
- A Priest’s Home in Khentkawes Town
- Dog Burials Discovered at Giza
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AERA Annual Report 2008-2009
- The 2009 Advanced Field School
Giza Center Becomes a Reality - Celebrating 20 Years of
- Discovery in Giza
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Giza Occasional Papers 5
Season 2009 Preliminary Report
- Excavations: Khentkawes Town
- Excavations: Heit el-Ghurab
- Specialist Reports: Archaeological Science, Pottery, Human Osteology, and Dog Mummies
- Coordinate Systems and Archaeological Grids Used at Giza
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OI Annual Report 2008-2009
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2008

AERAgram 9:1
- Impressions of the Past
- Lost City Site, Flooded
- AERA Membership Program
- Digging Old Luxor
- Rescue Dig, SAFS
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AERAgram 9:2
- Deciphering Ancient Code
- Small Finds, Big Results
- Egypt’s Oldest Olive
- Two Royal Towns
- Giza: Overviews
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Giza Occasional Papers 4
Seasons 2008 Preliminary Report
- Excavations: Khentkawes Town
- Introduction to Archaeological Science at Giza
- 2008 KKT Human Osteology
- Saqqara Laser Scanning Survey
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AERA Annual Report 2007-2008
- AERA in Luxor: The Salvage Archaeology Field School
- Resurrecting the Khentkawes Town: Giza Field Season 2008
- Under the Microscope: Life Stories from the Pyramid City Unfold
- Geographical Information System
- Saqqara Laser Scanning Survey 2008
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OI Annual Report 2007-2008
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2007

AERAgram 8:2
- Enigma of the Pedestals
- Ideas to Reality
- A High-Class Dump
- Class of 2006
- Mapping Khentkawes
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Giza Occasional Papers 3
Seasons 2006-2007 Preliminary Report
- Excavations
- Capital Zone Walk-About 2006: Spot Heights on the Third Millennium Landscape
- 2006 Geophysical Season at Giza: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study
- Giza Geomorphological Report
- Giza Laser Scanning Project
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2006

AERAgram 8:1
- Class of 2005
- GIS: Digitizing Archaeology
- Conservation Pilot Program
- Rescue Archaeology
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OI Annual Report 2005-2006
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2005

Giza Occasional Papers 2
Season 2005 Preliminary Report
- Area Clearing and Mapping
- Excavations in 2005
- Mapping Late Period Burials
- Conservation
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2004

AERAgram 7:1
- Remote sensing
- Glen Dash
- Egyptian labor organization
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AERAgram 7:2
- Western Town
- Eastern Town house
- Microscope photography
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Giza Occasional Papers 1
Season 2004 Preliminary Report
- 2004 Excavation in Previously Cleared Areas
- Clearing and Excavation of New Areas Around the Soccer Field
- North of the Wall of the Crow
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OI Annual Report 2003-2004
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2003

AERAgram 6:2
- Pyramid city
- Peter Norton
- Mapping Aswan quarries
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OI Annual Report 2002-2003
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2002

AERAgram 5:2
- Unfinished Giza
- David Koch
- Fabric of a pyramid
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AERAgram 6:1
- Millennium Project
- Gallery revealed
- Pharaoh’s storeroom
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OI Annual Report 2001-2002
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2001

AERAgram 4:2
- Giza galleries
- Matthew McCauley
- Khafre’s galleries
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AERAgram 5:1
- Footprint of the state
- Desert in flood
- Wall of the Crow
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OI Annual Report 2000-2001
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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2000

AERAgram 3:2
- Drawing Giza
- The Millennium Clock
- Millennium Project
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AERAgram 4:1
- Unveiling a royal plan
- Jon Jerde
- Magnetic anomaly surveying
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OI Annual Report 1999-2000
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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1999

AERAgram 3:1
- Capturing Area A
- Bruce Ludwig
- The older phase
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OI Annual Report 1998-1999
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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1998

AERAgram 2:1
- Microarchaeology
- Sealings from Giza
- Pots to pyramids
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AERAgram 2:2
- A workman’s house
- Sphinx restoration
- Sand, wind, and heat
- Late period burials
- Copper workshop
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1997

AERAgram 1:2
- Director’s diary
- GPMP database
- 1997 field season
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1996

AERAgram 1:1
- Introducing AERAGRAM
- Pyramid-age bakery reconstructed
- Radiocarbon dating
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OI Annual Report 1995-1996
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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1994

OI Annual Report 1993-1994
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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1992

OI Annual Report 1991-1992
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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1991

OI Annual Report 1990-1991
Giza Plateau Mapping Project field season report for the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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