Digging It: Archeology in Egypt

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Under Lehner's direction, the American Research Center in Egypt's (ARCE) field school receives financial support from a USAID Egyptian Antiquities Conservation grant, among other international cultural philanthropic and academic organizations. An interdisciplinary approach is being taken in reconstructing the lost city [of Giza], using the standards of "settlement archeology," which examines not only sediment layers, but pottery remains, bone fragments, plant remains, and so on.

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Digging It: Archeology in Egypt

AT AN OCT. 6 presentation at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, Dr. Mark Lehner, director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), discussed archeological en...

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