by aera | May 11, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
by Claire Malleson The excavations this season have all taken place in or around the Silo Building Complex (SBC) to the east of the Khentkawes town area. These excavations began in 2012, and the results of work by specialists on those materials helped us decide where...
by aera | Apr 20, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
By Rabee Aissa and Hussein Rikaby (MSA archaeologists) Our colleague Hanan Mahmoud, archaeologist in the Giza pyramids zone and AERA team member wrote a blog three weeks ago under the title ‘Fighting for Archaeology – the Silo Building Complex’. She...
by aera | Mar 25, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
By Hanan Mahmoud (MSA archaeologist) Joining the AERA team at the beginning of March 2014 was one of my dreams. Finally, I could work in the Silo Building Complex (SBC)! I remember in 2011, after the revolution, my colleague Rabee Eissa and I worked in the Menkaure...
by aera | Mar 7, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
Using Sealing Fragments to Hear Ancient Voices by John Nolan As strange as it may sound, much of our understanding of our excavations at Giza, rests on how we interpret small, broken chunks of clay that come out of the site. These fragments come from sealings, which...
by aera | Mar 2, 2014 | 2014 Field Season, Blog
by Dan Jones Depending on the location of the site the amount of physical and visual contact an archaeologist has with everyday life going on around where they work greatly varies. This season the AERA team is continuing its excavation of the Silo Building Complex...
