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 and understanding to the present awareness of cultural evolution.
In recent years, we have explored the development of urbanism, labor organization, and the elementary structures of ancient daily life at the once-Lost City of the pyramid builders at Giza.
AERA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Dr. Mark Lehner and Matthew McCauley, with the assistance of Margaret Sears, in 1985 for the purpose of funding and facilitating the research of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, which grew out of the Sphinx Project.
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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...
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News: Oldest Olive Wood In Egypt
AERA I have no idea when this news item became available on the AERA website because it doesn't actually say (unless I'm suffering from selective blindness), which is more than a little frustrating. I don't appear to have posted about it before...
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Feature: The Pyramid Workers' Village
AERA Also on You Tube and Heritage Key Interview with Mark Lehner about the excavation and analysis of the Giza pyramid workers' village. It provides an excellent insight into, in particular, the food consumed by the workers, who really seem to have...
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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)...
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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...
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