Dr. Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with over thirty years' experience excavating in Egypt. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeological investigation. Every excavated object, from buildings down to pollen spores, is examined by specialists to create an overall picture of an archaeological site. His international team currently runs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, excavating and mapping the ancient city of the builders of the Giza pyramid complex. Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... Giza (Arabic, الجيزة, transliterated al-ǧīzah; pronounced in the Egyptian Arabic dialect of Cairo al-Gīza; also sometimes rendered in English as Gizeh, Ghizeh, or Geezeh) is a town in Egypt on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo and now part of... The Giza pyramid field, viewed from the southwest. ...

Mark Lehner first went to Egypt as a student abroad in the 1970s. Intrigued by the mysteries of the "Sleeping Prophet," Edgar Cayce, Lehner "found that [my] initial notions about the ancient civilization along the Nile could not stand up to the bedrock reality of the Giza Plateau." He turned to the scientific method of discovery, returning some years later to complete a PhD at Yale University. Lehner's 1991 dissertation was "Archaeology of an image: The Great Sphinx of Giza." // What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Yale can refer to: Yale University, one of the United States oldest and most famous universities. ...

Among his other work in Egypt, Mark Lehner has produced the only scale maps of the Sphinx in existence. He spent five years surveying and mapping the famous statue built by Khafre. The name Khafre can refer to: The Pharaoh Khafra, also known as Chephren. ...

Lehner's book, The Complete Pyramids (1997) is an exhaustive catalog of Egypt's many pyramid sites. Lehner has appeared in many television programs about Egypt. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Books

• The Complete Pyramids, Thames & Hudson (1997). (ISBN 0-50-005084-8)