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	<description>An archaeology blog from the Giza Pyramids in Egypt</description>
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		<title>Buried again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I packed my bags to leave Egypt today, many of my AERA teammates were still buried in work. It’s archaeology but it’s not in the dirt, which brings up a question I’m sometimes asked. What does the team do with the excavation site once the season is over? They bury it (backfill) with clean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=436&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The colors of antiquity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 05:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can color tell us about an ancient culture? Possibly a lot, according Dr. Laurel Flentye. She’s doing a comparative study of the pigments found by AERA archaeologists at the Lost City of the Pyramids and the nearby tombs of the Fourth Dynasty (the Eastern Cemetery and the G1S Cemetery).  Goal There is little published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=396&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Scene in the tomb of Meresankh III.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The Egyptian palette was limited.</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Still vibrant after 4,500 years.</media:title>
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		<title>Keeping his hand in</title>
		<link>http://aerablog.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/keeping-his-hand-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite his heavy responsibilities as Director of AERA, Mark Lehner is at heart a field archaeologist. One foggy morning at Giza recently, I found him alone, mapping features in the area between the Menkaure Valley Temple and Khentkawes Town.  Mark and his good friend, Zahi Hawass, have an ongoing joke about which one of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=405&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Field work is in his blood.</media:title>
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		<title>Graduation Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I feel like new born,” said field school graduate ‎Amr Zakaria Mohammed when asked how he felt at the end of the AERA/ARCE Giza Field School. Graduation day was the culmination of eight weeks of very, very long days and hard work. The graduates, all Egyptian antiquities inspectors, have been out in the cold and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=383&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Noha Bolbol with her certificate.</media:title>
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		<title>More to come&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aerablog.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/more-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m preparing more posts (objects, pigments) but it&#8217;s been a very busy couple of days. There is a dinner for the Field School at the hotel tonight and we&#8217;re going to Saqqara tomorrow. So, insha&#8217;allah, I&#8217;ll get the new posts written, edited, and posted in the next day or so. Stay tuned&#8230; Use the calendar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=380&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeology is not pretty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ceramics can tell you everything! Well, not everything but a lot.” So says AERA’s Polish ceramics team, led by Dr. Anna Wodzinska. People often ask when you work in archaeology, “What are you discovering?” They have the romantic notions about finding tombs and treasure.  “Archaeology is not pretty,” Anna told me. The treasure being sought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=330&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where data goes to live</title>
		<link>http://aerablog.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/where-data-goes-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Do artifacts ever leave Giza?” Good question. The answer is NO! Nothing ever leaves Giza. AERA collects and analyzes everything they excavate and everything goes into SCA-sanctioned storage. The Giza storeroom and lab are overseen by Dr. Mary Anne Murray. I have a special affection for Mary Anne. With her warm and witty personality, she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=341&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Dr. Mary Anne Murray in the lab she oversees near the pyramids.</media:title>
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		<title>To sleep, perchance to dream</title>
		<link>http://aerablog.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/to-sleep-perchance-to-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The field school’s wireless server at the hotel only reaches far enough to put my room just outside the bubble. So I park myself outside the room with the server (not convenient for Skype). The other night I noticed I wasn’t the only one in the hall. Field school students, Nagwan Elhadedi and Noha Bolbol, were sitting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=317&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">All work and no play.</media:title>
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		<title>A big chance to learn</title>
		<link>http://aerablog.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/a-big-chance-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afaf Wahba has worked for the Supreme Council of Antiquities for nine years. She began as a curator at the Coptic Museum in old Cairo and for the past two years, she’s been an inspector at the Central Department of Giza. This job does not usually entail field work, but that did not stop Afaf [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=300&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Staying on&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note to say that although I should have left Egypt this morning at 2:00 a.m., I&#8217;ve decided to stay and finish out the season with the blog. Please stay tuned for more postings. Use the calendar on the right to view posts from February, March, and April, 2009.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aerablog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6124222&amp;post=322&amp;subd=aerablog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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