Giza Plateau MaPPinG Project
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Between January 31 and May 7, 2009, the Giza Plateau mapping project team worked at the flagship Heit el-Ghurab (HeG) site (aka Lost City site) and up on the Giza Plateau at the Khentkawes Town (KKT), the settlement attached to the monument of Queen Khentkawes I (fig. 1).1 We embedded the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) Advanced Field School for Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) inspectors in our excavation program from February 7 to April 2, 2009. Co-field directors Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares oversaw the excavations.
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