Scanning by Eye and Experience: In Search of the Human Hand That Built the Great Pyramid (original) (raw)
AERAgram Volume 17, No. 1/2 - Spring/Fall 2016
• Exploring a High Official’s Office-Residence • How Was ES2 Roofed? Modeling in 3D • From the Giza Field Lab: Unique Finds in 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 • Windfall Films on AERA’s 2017 Work: Secrets of the Pyramids and Unearthed: Sphinx • Archaeology Magazine Features “Children of Giza”
• On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building • Did Egyptians Use the Sun to Align the Pyramids? • Construction Hub to Cult Center: Re-purposing, Old Kingdom Style • A Return to Area AA: Informal Seals and Sealings of the Heit el-Ghurab • A Change of Address: Funerary Workshop Priests Move to New Quarters • Return to Memphis: MRFS 2014 • Season 2015: Doing Science at Giza • Prickly Protection: Sailing in a Hedgehog Boat • Lost City Site and AERA in "Secrets: Great Pyramid"
• Discovery 2015: House of a High Official • What Was the Original Size of the Great Pyramid? • The Gallery Complex Gives Up Some of Its Secrets • Hidden Details Come to Light with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) • Meagre: A Mediterranean Delicacy • Jon Jerde: The Space In Between
2012
• Memphis, A City Unseen: Joint AERA-ARCE-EES Beginners Field School Excavates Oldest Part of Egypt's Ancient Capital City • Field School Grads Take The Lead • North by Northwest: The Strange Case of Giza’s Misalignments • GPMP Full Circle
Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context
This article assesses the settlement structures in the Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT) in the wider context of settlement at the southeastern base of the Giza Plateau, including the Khentkawes Town (KKT), adjacent to the MVT, as well as domestic structures in other pyramid temples and enclosures, mainly those of Raneferef (Fifth Dynasty) and Wedjebten (Sixth Dynasty). I look at the hypothesis that the MVT and KKT together formed one pyramid town. From extensions of the KKT to the east, discovered in the last few years, doorways opened north to the adjacent Central Field East cemetery, which developed in a Fourth Dynasty quarry during the Fifth Dynasty, contemporary with the main occupation of the KKT and MVT. Seen in these wider architectural, settlement, and cemetery contexts, the occupation of the MVT court appears as one node, like that of the Raneferef court, in a complex network of affiliations of pyramid towns and tem- ples, including a tight relationship between the foundations of Khafre, Menkaure, and Khentkawes I.
• Memphis Site & Community Development: Ambitious Plans, Big Challenges • Memphis: The Once Great Capital City Lost and Rediscovered • The Great Pyramid's Footprint: Results from our 2015 Survey • Catching Up with Yukinori Kawae: Author, National Geographic Explorer • From Dig to Data: AERA-ARCE Field School Students Publish their First Book of Research Papers • A Second Official’s House Discovered • The Pedestal Puzzle • Remembering Kamal el-Deen Waheed • US Ambassador to Egypt Tours the Lost City Site
Giza Plateau Mapping Project Season 2008 Preliminary Report. Giza Occasional Papers 4 (GOP4)
Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, Ana Tavares, Mary Anne Murray, Jessica Kaiser, Yukinori Kawae, Kosuke Sato, Hiroyuki Kamei, Tomoaki Nakano, and Ichiro Kanaya report on the activities and results of the 2008 season of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, deployed by Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), including excavations at the Khentkawes Town and laser scanning of the Djoser Step Pyramid at Saqqara.