Phanstiel Lecture: The People Who Built the Pyramids—How We Know
National Veterans Resource Center, K.G. Tan Auditorium
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Mark Lehner is director and president of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Inc. His forty years of archaeological research in Egypt includes mapping the Great Sphinx and discovering a major part of the ‘Lost City of the Pyramids’ at Giza.
Lehner directs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, which conducts annual excavations of Old Kingdom settlements near the Sphinx and Pyramids with an interdisciplinary and international team of archaeologists, geochronologists, botanists and faunal specialists.
Lehner has appeared on television in National Geographic’s Explorer program, and on NOVA’s Riddles of the Sphinx and Secrets of Lost Empires series on ancient technology. He 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.
This event will be livestreamed.
Sponsored by the Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Leadership.
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Talks
Region
Campus
Open to
Public
Organizer
MAX-Dean’s Office
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