Des Moines, Iowa - On the heels of the Lost Egypt: Ancient Secrets, Modern Science exhibit opening at the Science Center of Iowa (SCI), AERA Co-Field Director Ana Tavares will visit the Midwestern museum next month as the inaugural guest of its Scientist in Residence program.

Between Wednesday, February 15th and Saturday, February 18th, Ana will take part in a series of events, including:

• School group lectures – explaining archaeological techniques to students grades K-12
• Teacher and Member workshops
• Café Scientifique discussion, Excavating for Information: Uncovering Egypt
• Behind the Scenes Lost Egypt exhibit tours

The Lost Egypt exhibit showcases some of AERA’s work conducted over the years in Egypt. Ana, who helped develop the exhibit, will lead the… READ MORE »

October looks to be a busy month for AERA Osteologist Jessica Kaiser. As part of the 116th year of the Lecture Program put on by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), Kaiser will take part in four speaking engagements in a five-day span.

Traveling between the Great Lakes Region and the Florida panhandle, she will be lecturing on the patterns of child burials at The Wall of the Crow Cemetery and what these patterns can describe to researchers about the families of the deceased. She will also discuss the sacred landscape of Giza and its renewed use as a necropolis.

Sunday, October 16, 2011 – 3:00pm
Giza Through Time and Space: The Renegotiation of a Sacred Landscape
Krannert Art… READ MORE »

Be sure to catch an encore broadcast of the Writers Guild Award nominated Riddles Of The Sphinx on NOVA, Wednesday May 18th at 9:00 pm on PBS (check local listings).

This documentary, filmed by Providence Pictures producer Gary Glassman, looks to uncover the truths behind some of the biggest mysteries and theories surrounding the ancient statue, and features AERA Director Dr. Mark Lehner as one of the archaeologists looking for answers.

Riddles of the Sphinx debuted on the PBS science program NOVA early last year.

Please join us on Wednesday February 23 when AERA’s co-field director, Ana Tavares, will present a lecture on An Old Kingdom Village House – Excavation, Conservation and Reconstruction at Heit El-Ghurab, Giza 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.

AERA Director Dr. Mark Lehner’s brief interview in the February 6th issue of the Boston Globe Magazine. Click on the image to enlarge, or visit the Boston Globe Magazine’s web site at www.boston.com/magazine.

Dr. Richard Redding, AERA Chief Research Officer and curator of the Zooarchaeology Laboratory at the University of Michigan, will be giving a lecture at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in December.

As part of the Institute’s Fall Friday Lecture Series, Dr. Redding’s lecture, A Tale of Two Sites: Old Kingdom Subsistence Economy and Infrastructure of Pyramid Construction concludes the season series, which focuses on the archaeology of diet and subsistence and discussing methods of investigating the food ways of past human societies.

This lecture will be held on December 3rd at 4:00pm in Fowler Hall room A222.

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 »

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.