Open Access Journal: AERAGRAM

[First posted in AWOL 29 October 2009. Updated 11 November 2021]

AERAGRAM
ISSN: 1944-0014

AERAGRAM is the official newsletter of Ancient Egypt Research Associates.

PDFs of past issues are available below. The most recent issue is only available to our members. Click here to become an AERA member & help support our work in Egypt.

Volume 20

Spring 2019
• Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple
• Broken, Buried & Bewildering: The Menkaure Valley Temple Sanctuary
• Farmers at the Heit el-Ghurab Site?
• Did Butchers Use Copper Knives at Giza?

Fall 2019
• Shorbet Kawara: An Enlightenment
• Copper at Giza: The Latest News
• Am I Ancient: An Archaeobotanical Riddle
• Foreign Trade and Heit el-Ghurab
• In Memoriam: Glen Dash & Rabea Shehat

Volume 19

Fall 2018 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
• Kromer in Context: Bio of an Ancient Dump
• Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple
• AERA Field School at Khentkawes Town
• Giza Botanical Database Online

Spring 2018
• Kromer 2018: Basket by Basket
• Where in the World Is the Great Pyramid?
• Spinning and Weaving at the Pyramids
• From the Lab: Mechanics of an Influx
• Learning Animal Bone: AERA-ARCE Field School

Volume 18

Spring 2017
• Who Built the Sphinx?
• Finding Petrie’s Marks on the Giza Plateau
• In Search of Khufu
• A Roof Over Their Heads
• How Egyptians Quarried Their Building Blocks

Fall 2017
• Voices of Memphis
• Kafr, Village of the Pyramid Sheikhs at Giza
• Bone Smashing
• David Goodman: Back to the Point of Beginning
• Sphinx Archive Project: It’s a Wrap

Volume 17

Spring/Fall 2016 (members only)
• Exploring a High Official’s Office-Residence
• MSCD Memphis Project: The Final Year
• In Search of the Human Hand that Built the Great Pyramid
• Mit Rahinia Museum Catalog in the Works
• AERA to Publish Archive of the Great Sphinx

Volume 16

Download Spring 2015
• Discovery 2015: House of a High Official
• What Was the Original Size of the Great Pyramid?
• The Gallery Complex Gives Up Its Secrets
• Hidden Details Come to Light with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
• Jon Jerde: The Space In Between

Download Fall 2015
• Memphis Site & Community Development: Ambitious Plans, Big Challenges
• Results from the Survey of the Great Pyramid
• A Second Official’s House Discovered
• Remembering Kamal Waheed
• US Ambassador to Egypt Tours the Lost City Site

Volume 15

Download Spring/Fall 2014
• On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building
• Did Egyptians Use the Sun to Align the Pyramids?
• A Change of Address: Funerary Workshop Priests Move to New Quarters
• A Return to Area AA: Informal Seals and Sealings of the Heit el-Ghurab
• Construction Hub to Cult Center: Re-purposing, Old Kingdom Style

Volume 14

Download Spring 2013
• The Lost Port City of the Pyramids: Heit el-Ghurab reveals a new role as part of a major port of the Nile
• How the Pyramid Builders Found True North
• The First Photos Taken from the Great Pyramid Summit
• Weeds & Seeds: On the Trail of Ancient Egyptian Agriculture

Download Fall 2013
• “PEAKIT” Punches Up 3D Laser Scanning, Adds Accurate Surface Relief
• The Lost City is Named One of the Top 10 Field Discoveries
• An Ancient Egyptian Insect Repellent
• A Small Clay Label, a Bundle of Linen, and an Ancient Economic Network
• Securing AERA’s Legacy: Data Curation

Volume 13

Download Spring 2012
• Memphis, A City Unseen
• Field School Grads Take The Lead
• North by Northwest: The Strange Case of Giza’s Misalignments
• GPMP Full Circle

Download Fall 2012
• New Angles on the Great Pyramids
• Fifth Dynasty Renaissance at Giza
• The Silo Building Complex
• Living on a Slope in the Town of Queen Khentkawes
• Egypt’s Oldest Olive

Volume 12

Download Spring 2011
• The OK Corral
• The Luxor Study Field School
• Bringing an Ancient House Back to Life
• The Buried Basin and the Town Beyond
Kindle Edition Now Available For Purchase

Download Fall 2011
• Solar Alignments of Giza
• GIS Brings It All Together
• Stews, Meat and Marrow
• The Mit Rahina Field School

Volume 11

Download Spring 2010
• Called Back to Luxor: AERA-ARCE Field School
• Ascending Giza on a Monumental Ramp
• Analysis and Publication Field School
• A New Field Season: A New Home

Download Winter 2011
• Digging Again
• Training Egypt’s Archaeological Scientists
• Double-Decker Dorms
• On The Cusp Of A New Dynasty

Volume 10

Download Spring 2009
• 10, 20, 30 Years: Mark Lehner Reflects on a Career in Archaeology
• In Memoriam: Mahmoud Kirsh
• Daily Life of the Pyramid Builders
• AERA’s New Home

Download Fall 2009
• The 2009 Field School
• Teaching Ceramics
• A Priest’s Home in Khentkawes Town
• Dog Burials Discovered at Giza

Volume 9

Download Spring 2008
• Impressions of the Past
• Lost City Site, Flooded
• AERA Membership Program
• Digging Old Luxor
• Rescue Dig, SAFS

Download Fall 2008
• Deciphering Ancient Code
• Small Finds, Big Results
• Egypt’s Oldest Olive
• Two Royal Towns
• Giza: Overviews

Volume 8

Download Fall 2006
• Class of 2005
• GIS: Digitizing Archaeology
• Conservation Pilot Program
• Rescue Archaeology

Download Fall 2007
• Enigma of the Pedestals
• Ideas to Reality
• A High-Class Dump
• Class of 2006
• Mapping Khentkawes

Volume 7

Download Spring 2004
• Remote sensing
• Glen Dash
• Egyptian labor organization

Download Fall 2004
• Western Town
• Eastern Town house
• Microscope photography

Volume 6

Download Fall 2002
• Millennium Project
• Gallery revealed
• Pharaoh’s storeroom

Download Fall 2003
• Pyramid city
• Peter Norton
• Mapping Aswan quarries

Volume 5

Download Fall 2001
• Footprint of the state
• Desert in flood
• Wall of the Crow

Download Spring 2002
• Unfinished Giza
• David Koch
• Fabric of a pyramid

Volume 4

Download Fall 2000
• Unveiling a royal plan
• Jon Jerde
• Magnetic anomaly surveying

Download Spring 2001
• Giza galleries
• Matthew McCauley
• Khafre’s galleries

Volume 3

Download 1999
• Capturing Area A
• Bruce Ludwig
• The older phase

Download 2000
• Drawing Giza
• The Millennium Clock
• Millennium Project

Volume 2

Download Winter 1998
• Microarchaeology
• Sealings from Giza
• Pots to pyramids

Download Summer 1998
• A workman’s house
• Sphinx restoration
• Sand, wind, and heat
• Late period burials
• Copper workshop

Volume 1

Download Fall 1996
• Introducing AERAGRAM
• Pyramid-age bakery reconstructed
• Radiocarbon dating

Download Spring 1997
• Director’s diary
• GPMP database
• 1997 field season