by aera | Apr 14, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
As I packed my bags to leave Egypt today, many of my AERA teammates were still buried in work. It’s archaeology but it’s not in the dirt, which brings up a question I’m sometimes asked. What does the team do with the excavation site once the season is over? They bury...
by aera | Apr 5, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
What can color tell us about an ancient culture? Possibly a lot, according to Dr. Laurel Flentye. She’s doing a comparative study of the pigments found by AERA archaeologists at the Lost City of the Pyramids and the nearby tombs of the Fourth Dynasty (the Eastern...
by aera | Apr 4, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
Despite his heavy responsibilities as Director of AERA, Mark Lehner is at heart a field archaeologist. One foggy morning at Giza recently, I found him alone, mapping features in the area between the Menkaure Valley Temple and Khentkawes Town. Mark and his good...
by aera | Apr 2, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
“I feel like new born,” said field school graduate Amr Zakaria Mohammed when asked how he felt at the end of the AERA/ARCE Giza Field School. Graduation day was the culmination of eight weeks of very, very long days and hard work. The graduates, all Egyptian...
by aera | Mar 30, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
I’m preparing more posts (objects, pigments) but it’s been a very busy couple of days. There is a dinner for the Field School at the hotel tonight and we’re going to Saqqara tomorrow. So, insha’allah, I’ll get the new posts written,...
by aera | Mar 28, 2009 | 2009 Field Season
“Ceramics can tell you everything! Well, not everything but a lot.” So says AERA’s Polish ceramics team, led by Dr. Anna Wodzinska. People often ask when you work in archaeology, “What are you discovering?” They have the romantic notions about finding tombs and...
