Mark Lehner

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Mark Lehner, Ph.D., is an American archaeologist with more than thirty years of experience excavating in Egypt. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeological investigation.^[1] Every excavated object is examined by specialists to create an overall picture of an archaeological site—from the buildings down to the pollen spores. His international team currently runs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, excavating and mapping the ancient city of the builders of the Giza pyramid complex, which dates to the fourth dynasty of Egypt.

Sphinx at Giza Plateau in Egypt

Mark Lehner first went to Egypt as a student 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 in order to understand the culture better, returning some years later to complete a doctorate degree at Yale University. Lehner's 1991 dissertation was, Archaeology of an image: The Great Sphinx of Giza.

Among his other work in Egypt, Mark Lehner has produced the only known scale maps of the Giza Sphinx. He spent five years surveying and mapping the famous statue built by [Khafre]].

Lehner's book, The Complete Pyramids (1997) is an exhaustive catalogue of Egypt's many pyramid sites. Lehner has appeared in many television programs about Ancient Egypt. He is also a visiting assistant professor of Egyptian archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Dr. Mark Lehner has also starred and aided in the production of several documentaries about the pyramids which are regularly aired on the National Geographic Channel. He has also fathered two half egyptian-half american sons Ramsis and Luke Lehner. Both of which are graduated from the American University of Cairo and are successfull Theatrical Actors (Ramsis and Luke) and Theatrical Directors and Musical Producers (Ramsis - www.myspace.com/LehnerRamsi)

cast:
Into the Great Pyramid (2002) (TV) (consultant: archeology)
Mysteries of Egypt (1998) (scientific consultant) (as Dr. Mark Lehner)
Saving the Sphinx (1998) (TV) (historical consultant)

actor:
Into the Great Pyramid (2002) (TV) .... Himself
Saving the Sphinx (1998) (TV) .... Himself
Egypt: Secrets of the Pharaohs (1997) (TV) .... Himself
Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts (1996) (TV) .... Himself