Vancouver Ssea Lecture: THE LOST PORT CITY OF THE PYRAMIDS: HEIT EL-GHURAB AT GIZA: WORKERS TOWN, PORT CITY, AND MORE Speaker: Dr. Mark Lehner, AERA Thursday, November 7, 2013 | 7:00 pm Location: Buchanan Rm A202, campus of the University of British Columbia This talk is sponsored by the Vancouver Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, AIA Society - Vancouver, and Department of Anthropology. Description: In this talk, Dr. Lehner will present a fresh and insightful interpretation of the Heit el-Ghurab site at Giza. Far more than a workers’ town, the site and its Gallery Complex belonged to a major Nile port and harbor, with basins, off-loading quays, timber stockpiles, warehouses, and possibly even shipyards. About The Speaker: Dr. MARK LEHNER is Director and President of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. (AERA), an American nonprofit organization, an NGO registered with the Egyptian government as AERA-Egypt. Dr. Lehner has carried out archaeological research in Egypt for over thirty years. From 1979 until 1983 he was the Field Director and then Director of the Sphinx Project sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt. In 1984 Dr. Lehner began the Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP), and he and his team has discovered a workers’ city known as Heit el-Ghurab and a large royal administrative center from the time of the pyramids (ca 2,500 B.C.). Dr. Lehner is author of The Complete Pyramids published in 1997 by Thames and Hudson. His work has appeared in articles in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Discover, and Archaeology magazine.
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