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...
by aera | Feb 7, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Simon Davis Two weeks down, five to go and we haven’t even started digging yet! Well actually three weeks down now as we spent the last week under curfew and not able to work. We are at the end of our second week of work at Standing Wall Island (SWI)...
by aera | Mar 25, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
Afaf Wahba has worked for the Supreme Council of Antiquities for nine years. She began as a curator at the Coptic Museum in old Cairo and for the past two years, she’s been an inspector at the Central Department of Giza. This job does not usually entail field work,...
by aera | Mar 12, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
Driving back to the hotel from the main dig site today, I was reminded of two features of the daily commute during my month digging with the AERA team in 2004: driving through the crowded suburb of Nazlet es Saman past the Sphinx and hearing three or four languages...
by aera | Mar 7, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
Brian Hunt, AERABLOG editor, will be our guest writer from the Giza pyramids in Egypt for two weeks in March 2009 during our twentieth anniversary celebration. Brian has been a volunteer with AERA since 2004 and has been the producer/writer of the AERA web site since...
