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(English) AERA Co-Field Director Kicks Off New Program
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Read More »Ana Tavares to Lecture at ARCE on Feb. 23
Join AERA’s co-field director, Ana Tavares, for an in-depth discussion on the Heit El-Ghurab site, which is one area of our team’s focus this season. The lecture, An Old Kingdom Village House – Excavation, Conservation and Reconstruction at Heit El-Ghurab, Giza, will be held on January 26, 2011 at 6:00 pm at the American Research Center in Egypt, 2 Simon Bolivar Square, Garden City, Giza. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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Read More »AERA’s Team Lectures at the SCA in Cairo
Sunday, 15 March, 2009
Egyptologist Dr. Mark Lehner and his team of interdisciplinary specialists presented their work about the Lost City of the Pyramids at the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Zamalek, Cairo. AERA’s scholars and researchers reveal details that are helping to answer the age-old question, “Who built the pyramids?”
The builders of the Giza monuments fulfilled the amazing vision of pharaohs Khufu (2551-2528 BC), Khafre (2520-2494 B.C.), and Menkaure (2490-2472 B.C.), and at the same time 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.
9:30 to 10:30 A.M.
Introductions to Excavations
Introduction: Dr. Mark Lehner,… READ MORE »
Oldest Olive Wood in Egypt
AERA’s Multinational Research Team Discovers Oldest Olive Wood in Egypt
BOSTON, MA – Researchers at Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc., the premier non-profit organization conducting original archaeological research and educational programs in Egypt, have discovered new evidence suggesting that olive wood was present in ancient Egypt as early as 2551- 2523 BCE, between 500 to 700 years before previously believed, a find that may provide new insights into the life of the pyramid builders.
The discovery, made by AERA charcoal analyst Rainer Gerisch, suggests that olive wood was at least present, if not grown, in Egypt as early as the time of Pharaoh Menkaure (about 2551-2523 BCE), builder of the third Giza pyramid. Until now, the earliest known traces… READ MORE »
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