Egypt
- Online: Aera Open Access Publications
Ancient World Online (Charles Jones) A useful summary of all the freely available resources on the AERA website, Egypt Research Associates explores Egypt’s archaeological record seeking the origins of civilization. Our mission is to contribute insight...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Aera Website Updated
Thanks to a posting on EEF for the information that the AERA website has been updated with some new articles: Conserving and reconstructing a pyramid builder's house: http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_conservation.asp "In the autumn of 2005, AERA initiated...
- Relief Of Goddess Returned
The pictures from Luxor Times article reminded me immediately of the site from a paper I had read years ago. The relief of the Goddess Akht was mauled back in 1990 with her head being chipped off a block found at the site of the 30th dynasty temple of...
Egypt
A Girl and Her Goddess
http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_hatmehyt.asp
There is a new short paper on the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) website by Marie-Astrid Calmettes (Egyptologist), Jessica Kaiser (Osteologist) and Brian V. Hunt, entitled A Girl and her Goddess. I'm not sure when the paper was put up on the site, but it replaces, as the featured "new article" the paper on Flint Industries at Giza (also well worth a read, if you haven't seen it before):
"More than 2,500 years ago, a very ill young woman died and was buried at the already long-abandoned site of the city of the pyramid builders at Giza. Her grave goods included an amulet of an obscure goddess that suggests the woman may not have been from the Giza area.
Not only that, but she may not have been of Egyptian descent."
See the above page for the full article, which is accompanied by some good photographs (mouse over the image to automatically invoke a bigger version of it).
There is a new short paper on the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) website by Marie-Astrid Calmettes (Egyptologist), Jessica Kaiser (Osteologist) and Brian V. Hunt, entitled A Girl and her Goddess. I'm not sure when the paper was put up on the site, but it replaces, as the featured "new article" the paper on Flint Industries at Giza (also well worth a read, if you haven't seen it before):
"More than 2,500 years ago, a very ill young woman died and was buried at the already long-abandoned site of the city of the pyramid builders at Giza. Her grave goods included an amulet of an obscure goddess that suggests the woman may not have been from the Giza area.
Not only that, but she may not have been of Egyptian descent."
See the above page for the full article, which is accompanied by some good photographs (mouse over the image to automatically invoke a bigger version of it).
- Online: Aera Open Access Publications
Ancient World Online (Charles Jones) A useful summary of all the freely available resources on the AERA website, Egypt Research Associates explores Egypt’s archaeological record seeking the origins of civilization. Our mission is to contribute insight...
- 400 Impoverished Burials Found At Giza
Unreported Heritage News (Owen Jarus) Owen Jarus has reported on findings announced at the Atlanta conference, which he attended. Great story Owen! At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating...
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Aera Website Updated
Thanks to a posting on EEF for the information that the AERA website has been updated with some new articles: Conserving and reconstructing a pyramid builder's house: http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_conservation.asp "In the autumn of 2005, AERA initiated...
- Relief Of Goddess Returned
The pictures from Luxor Times article reminded me immediately of the site from a paper I had read years ago. The relief of the Goddess Akht was mauled back in 1990 with her head being chipped off a block found at the site of the 30th dynasty temple of...