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"The Archaeology of Heit el-Ghurab: Building AERA as an Organization Embedded in the Egyptian Community"Mark Lehner will talk about our discovery of what can be called, without hyperbole, the Lost City of the Pyramids: the settlement and infrastructure of the people who built the Giza Pyramids, otherwise called the Heit el-Ghurab site, located about 400 meters south of the Great Sphinx. He will relate Ancient Egypt Research Associates’ findings of over 37 years to recent discoveries of the Wadi el-Jarf Papryi, which include a logbook of the leader of a team who transported stone from the eastern quarries at Tura to the Giza Plateau building Khufu’s Great Pyramid, and to what we know about how the Egyptians, 4.500 years ago, organized people and resources for this monumental task. Lehner will tell how AERA developed a comprehensive field school program and integrated training into their research, to empower young Egyptian archaeologists with the best standard practice of archaeological excavation and recording.
Mark Lehner is Director and President of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. (AERA). His nearly forty years of archaeological research in Egypt includes mapping the Great Sphinx and discovering a major part of the ‘Lost City of the Pyramids’ at Giza. Lehner directs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), which conducts annual excavations of Old Kingdom settlements near the Sphinx and Pyramids with an interdisciplinary and international team of archaeologists, geochronologists, botanists, and faunal specialists. From 1990-1995 Lehner was Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Chicago. He is now a Research Associate at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and a Senior Fellow at the Capitol Archaeology Institute of George Washington University.
Lehner has appeared on television in National Geographic’s Explorer program, and on NOVA’s Riddles of the Sphinx, and Secrets of Lost Empires series on ancient technology including This Old Pyramid and Obelisk. He is author of The Complete Pyramids, published in 1997 by Thames and Hudson. His work has appeared in articles in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Discover and Archaeology.
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