Connecting Our Data Through Digitization

Posted by Rebekah Miracle Even though I’ve been back home from Giza for over a week now, my work with the AERA geographic information system (GIS) isn’t over– it has just shifted into a new phase. During the excavation season, my priority was the daily digitization of...

Time for tea?? Final week in the Giza Lab

Posted by Dr. Claire Malleson After a busy season of work on materials from four areas of the AERA excavations, the Giza lab is now winding down. The ceramicists have finished their recording and drawing, the objects are all registered, sketched, photographed and...

Reading History Through Holes

Posted by Hanan Mahmoud Working in excavations requires you to be patient and record everything stratigraphically starting from modern to old. But working in trenches enables you to answer specific questions. Sometimes archaeologists have to make “shofi...

Learning The Language Of Others

Posted by Alexandra Jacobsen I was given the wonderful opportunity to return as a volunteer this year. I realized very quickly that only knowing a few words in Arabic from my last trip was not going to be enough this season. Archaeology itself is difficult but...