Egypt
AERA
- Aera Giza Plateau Blog
Aeraweb The AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) blog for the 2012 Field Season has been running for some weeks at the Giza Plateau, with four posts to date. Here's the most recent of the posts: With two photos. Posted by Rabee Eissa, SCA archaeologist...
- Aera 2009 Annual Report From Giza
AERA Ancient Egypt Research Associates I could have sworn that I had posted this before, but I cannot find it on the blog, so above is the link and apologies if this is a repeat posting. The following is part of the introduction by Mark Lehner. It is...
- Aera Blog - Season Ending
AERA blog The Ancient Egypt Research Associates team who have been working for another season in Giza are now beginning to pack up and go home, but their blog is still online with lots of posts and photographs to review. Here's Brian Hunt's post...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Aera Blog For Giza Plateau Mapping Project
http://aerablog.wordpress.com Thanks to Brian Hunt for the information that he is going to be maintaining a dig blog for AERA’s Giza Plateau Mapping Project this season. There's a link to the blog from the AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Association)...
Egypt
AERA 2011 Field Season
AERA
I've just noticed that the Ancient Egypt Research Associations 2011 field season blog is now online at the above address and has been updated with reports and photographs since 27th January. A shame that it hasn't been more widely publicized. Here's an exerpt from their first post on Jan 27th, but see the above page for all the posts to date. There are some very informative updates about recent excavation work, with some great photos.
We have just started excavations again at Giza, after a hiatus last year. During this busy hiatus we prepared material for publications, held an Analysis and Publication Field-School in Giza and a second Salvage Archaeology Field-School in Luxor.
This season we are excavating in both concession areas at Giza – the Workers Settlement (a.k.a the Lost City, a.k.a. Heit el-Ghurab) and the town of Queen Khentkawes. Both sites date from the mid 4th Dynasty (circa 2529 -2471 B.C.) although the town of Queen Khentkawes and the village inside the Valley Temple of Menkaure seem to have functioned until the end of the Old Kingdom (late 6th Dynasty, circa 2154 B.C. Click here for more information on how we date the site). The main research questions for this season are the ancient landscape (the southern and eastern approaches to the site), climate change and site formation (especially the process of dismantling, robbing and erosion). The four excavation areas all contribute evidence to these questions. After 10 somewhat boring days of removing the protective sand covering we put in place at the end of our last season we are finally ready to excavate!
- Aera Giza Plateau Blog
Aeraweb The AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Associates) blog for the 2012 Field Season has been running for some weeks at the Giza Plateau, with four posts to date. Here's the most recent of the posts: With two photos. Posted by Rabee Eissa, SCA archaeologist...
- Aera 2009 Annual Report From Giza
AERA Ancient Egypt Research Associates I could have sworn that I had posted this before, but I cannot find it on the blog, so above is the link and apologies if this is a repeat posting. The following is part of the introduction by Mark Lehner. It is...
- Aera Blog - Season Ending
AERA blog The Ancient Egypt Research Associates team who have been working for another season in Giza are now beginning to pack up and go home, but their blog is still online with lots of posts and photographs to review. Here's Brian Hunt's post...
- Giza Occasional Papers Volume 2
AERA Available for download in PDF format from the above page or open directly by clicking here. Here's an extract from the introduction: The 2005 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project at Giza, Egypt, took place over two periods: January 8th...
- Aera Blog For Giza Plateau Mapping Project
http://aerablog.wordpress.com Thanks to Brian Hunt for the information that he is going to be maintaining a dig blog for AERA’s Giza Plateau Mapping Project this season. There's a link to the blog from the AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Association)...