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...
- Cemetery Of The Pyramid Builders
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I still consider the discovery of the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders to be one of the greatest archaeological achievements, and personally speaking this ranks as one of my most precious discoveries. This is because prior...
- Pyramids Of Egypt - One Grand Plan?
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Two of the pyramids of Giza, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project--a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh's...
- 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...
- Dig Days: The Pyramid Builders Ii (zahi Hawass)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her2.htm An article by Zahi Hawass in Al Ahram Weekly about the Pyramid Builders' Village at Giza. "The discovery of the tombs of the Pyramid builders has provided us with vital information about the workmen who...
Egypt
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 the publication of the first in a series of monographs detailing our work at the settlement of the pyramid builders. While the builders of the Giza pyramids built amazing monuments for pharaohs Khufu (2551-2528 BC), Khafre (2520-2494 B.C.), and Menkaure (2490-2472 B.C.), they also created one of the earliest examples of urban planning. When the last Giza pyramid was completed, the Lost City was abandoned and forgotten until its rediscovery within the past two decades."
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 the publication of the first in a series of monographs detailing our work at the settlement of the pyramid builders. While the builders of the Giza pyramids built amazing monuments for pharaohs Khufu (2551-2528 BC), Khafre (2520-2494 B.C.), and Menkaure (2490-2472 B.C.), they also created one of the earliest examples of urban planning. When the last Giza pyramid was completed, the Lost City was abandoned and forgotten until its rediscovery within the past two decades."
- 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...
- Cemetery Of The Pyramid Builders
Asharq Alawsat (Zahi Hawass) I still consider the discovery of the Cemetery of the Pyramid Builders to be one of the greatest archaeological achievements, and personally speaking this ranks as one of my most precious discoveries. This is because prior...
- Pyramids Of Egypt - One Grand Plan?
Discovery Channel News (Rossella Lorenzi) Two of the pyramids of Giza, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world, were conceived as a single project--a sort of grandiose stage show to represent the final and most important part of a pharaoh's...
- 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...
- Dig Days: The Pyramid Builders Ii (zahi Hawass)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/her2.htm An article by Zahi Hawass in Al Ahram Weekly about the Pyramid Builders' Village at Giza. "The discovery of the tombs of the Pyramid builders has provided us with vital information about the workmen who...