Mark Lehner

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Mark Lehner is an American Egyptologist .

Lehner first traveled to Egypt in 1972 . At that time he was still a supporter of the ideas of the “sleeping prophet” Edgar Cayce , who claimed that the culture of ancient Egypt was founded by Atlantis . The following year he began studying at the American University in Cairo, in the course of which he gradually distanced himself from Cayce's ideas. In 1975 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology . He spent the next 13 years on various archaeological projects. In 1979 he became head of the Sphinx project at the American Research Center in Egypt , for the precise investigation and measurement of the Sphinx.

In 1990 Lehner received his PhD in Egyptology from Yale University . Since 1988 he has been leading the excavations south of the Sphinx, part of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project . The workers' settlement and the production facilities of the pyramid plateau of Giza have been uncovered there to this day. One of his most publicized projects was the replica of a small pyramid, with which ancient Egyptian working techniques should be tested and the number of workers required to build the pyramids should be estimated.

His book The Complete Pyramids received the 1999 Book Award from the Society for American Archeology .

Fonts

  • The Egyptian Heritage. Based on the Edgar Cayce Readings. 1974.
  • The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The Khufu Project. In: Communications from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Vol. 41, von Zabern, Mainz 1985, pp. 109-143.
  • Archeology of an Image. The Great Sphinx of Giza. (Dissertation, Yale 1991).
  • The Complete Pyramids. Thames & Hudson, London 1997; German edition: The first wonder of the world. The secrets of the Egyptian pyramids. ECON, Munich / Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-430-15963-6 .
  • Zahi Hawass and Mark Lehner: Giza and the Pyramids ; German edition: The Pyramids of Gizeh , wbg Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-8053-5106-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Book Award , website of the Society for American Archeology
personal data
SURNAME Lehner, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Egyptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century