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Dr. Mark Lehner – Looking for Khufu in Heit el-Ghurab: Reporting on Ancient Egypt Research Associates’ Field Season at the Wall of the Crow
October 2, 2018 @ 7:00 pm EDT
Sponsored by: American Research Center in Egypt - Northwest Chapter
Dr. Lehner reports on the results of AERA’s excavations of the oldest
phase of the 4th Dynasty settlement site Heit el-Ghurab (“Wall of the
Crow”), 400 meters south of the Great Sphinx. Most of what AERA
has mapped of the so-called “Workers Town” dates to the reigns of
Khafre and Menkaure, builders of the second and third Giza
Pyramids. An older, different layout that lies below was dismantled
when the royal household reorganized the site. AERA hypothesized
the older layout was part of a much larger pyramid city and Nile
Port of Khufu. During field season 2018, AERA tested this hypothesis
by excavating and analyzing broad exposures of the lower phase and
by re-examining “Kromer’s Dump”.
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