Egypt
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nina Hamedani)
This article appeared on Google Reader this morning, even though it refers to something that took place in October 2008. Still, better late than never:
See the above page for the full story.
- 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...
- Secrets Of Daily Life Among The Great Pyramids Of Giza
Columbus Dispatch (Doug Caruso) The Egyptians who built the giant pyramids on the Giza Plateau 4,500 years ago ate dense bread, choice cuts of meat and preserved fish. They slept in military-style barracks and belonged to work gangs with names such as...
- The Giza Guru
The Minot Daily News Mark Lehner said his North Dakota upbringing helped him fulfill his dreams and goals with a career in uncovering ancient mysteries in Egypt. Lehner, who grew up in Minot, is considered one of the foremost experts on the Giza Pyramids...
- Giza Plateau Mapping Project - Field Schools
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm A good insight into the work of the Giza Plateu Mapping Project with special emphasis on its training of Egyptian field archaeologists: "Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), realised...
- New Website Re Giza Plateau Mapping Project
http://www.aeraweb.org/ The above is a new website, which is the official Web site of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), specifically Dr. Mark Lehner and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project. It is a good looking site, with some nice features,...
Egypt
Waging Peace
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nina Hamedani)
This article appeared on Google Reader this morning, even though it refers to something that took place in October 2008. Still, better late than never:
AT AN OCT. 6 presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, Dr. Mark Lehner, director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), discussed archeological endeavors in Egypt “as cultural capacity building.” More specifically, his lecture focused on how archeology in Egypt opens the door to exchanges between Egyptians and foreigners.
Beginning his remarks with a dreamlike photograph of the Pyramids of Giza, Lehner noted that just as “in the popular imagination there’s kind of a fog around the pyramids, as far as who built them and why,” there also is a “fog that surrounds the contemporary Middle East” for many Westerners.
The scholar has excavated in Egypt for over 30 years, producing the only scaled maps of the Giza Sphinx. His more recent focus has been on uncovering the lost city that would have housed the 20,000 to 30,000 pyramid workers.
Under Lehner’s direction, the American Research Center in Egypt’s (ARCE) field school receives financial support from a USAID Egyptian Antiquities Conservation grant, among other international cultural philanthropic and academic organizations. While he considers the field school as “cultural capacity building from the bottom-up”—that being the “robustness behind all successful business organizations”—Lehner acknowledged that the support from the top-down “allows us to be successful, to make change.”
See the above page for the full story.
- 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...
- Secrets Of Daily Life Among The Great Pyramids Of Giza
Columbus Dispatch (Doug Caruso) The Egyptians who built the giant pyramids on the Giza Plateau 4,500 years ago ate dense bread, choice cuts of meat and preserved fish. They slept in military-style barracks and belonged to work gangs with names such as...
- The Giza Guru
The Minot Daily News Mark Lehner said his North Dakota upbringing helped him fulfill his dreams and goals with a career in uncovering ancient mysteries in Egypt. Lehner, who grew up in Minot, is considered one of the foremost experts on the Giza Pyramids...
- Giza Plateau Mapping Project - Field Schools
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm A good insight into the work of the Giza Plateu Mapping Project with special emphasis on its training of Egyptian field archaeologists: "Mark Lehner, director of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), realised...
- New Website Re Giza Plateau Mapping Project
http://www.aeraweb.org/ The above is a new website, which is the official Web site of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), specifically Dr. Mark Lehner and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project. It is a good looking site, with some nice features,...