Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 118 p. — (The Asyut Project 13). — ISBN13 9783447114318. — ISBN10 3447114312. Since 2003, the Egyptian-German team of The Asyut Project has been working on Gebel Asyut al-gharbi close to the modern city of Asyut. One of the areas investigated is a tomb known as Northern Soldiers-Tomb (H11.1) due to its painted decoration of marching warriors....
Archaeopress, 2000. — 316 p. Hierakonpolis is situated some 650 km south of Cairo and 113 km north of Aswan. The Locality 6 cemetery lies 2 km south west of the edge of cultivation in the bed of Wadi Abul Suffian, and covers an area of approximately 18,000 sq.m. The mortuary use of the site started about 3700 BC and continued until around 3050 BC. This volume studies 12 tombs,...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 92 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 9.2). Les fouilles de Tell Edfou, interrompues depuis 1928, ont été reprises par l'Institut français d'Archéologie pendant les mois de février et mars 1932. Elles font suite au travail dirigé par MM. Henne (1922-1923, 1923-1924) et Guéraud(1927-1928 ).
Phillip von Zabern, 1981. — 167 S. — (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 8.3). Eine detaillierte archäologische Untersuchung des Tempels des vereinigenden Pharaos und Schöpfers des Mittleres Reichs Mentuhotep II (ca. 2060–2009 v. Chr.) aus der XI. Dynastie in Deir el Bahri durch den großen deutschen Ägyptologen Dieter Arnold (* 1936).
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. — 280 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 25. The South Cemeteries of Lisht 3). As a result of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's renewed excavations in Lisht, the Egyptian Department published The Pyramid of Senwosret I by Dieter Arnold in 1988, followed in 1990 by The Control Notes and Team Marks by Felix...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988. — 294 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 22. The South Cemeteries of Lisht 1). Nine years have passed since the appearance of the most recent Egyptian Expedition Publication, Dieter Arnold's Temple of Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahari from the notes of Herbert Winlock. During that time the Metropolitan...
Philipp von Zabern, 1993. — 198 p. — (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut: Abteilung Kairo: Sonderschrift 17). An introduction in Ancient Egyptian pottery, including techniques and traditions of manufacture in the pottery of ancient Egypt and ceramic technology, clay and fabrics.
Philipp von Zabern, 1993. — 198 p. — (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut: Abteilung Kairo: Sonderschrift 17). An introduction in Ancient Egyptian pottery, including techniques and traditions of manufacture in the pottery of ancient Egypt and ceramic technology, clay and fabrics.
Philipp von Zabern, 1977. — 154 S. — (Grabung im Asasif (1963-1970) 6). Al-Assasif ist Teil des archäologischen Komplexes in Luxor, der zur Theban-Nekropole des Neuen Reichs gehört. In der Zeit von 1963 bis 1970 wurden dort vom Deutschen Archäologischen Institut in Kairo Ausgrabungen von Privatgräbern durchgeführt. Diese Reihe enthält detaillierte Berichte zu diesen Studien.
Philipp von Zabern, 1973. — 171 S. — (Grabung im Asasif (1963-1970) 2). Al-Assasif ist Teil des archäologischen Komplexes in Luxor, der zur Theban-Nekropole des Neuen Reichs gehört. In der Zeit von 1963 bis 1970 wurden dort vom Deutschen Archäologischen Institut in Kairo Ausgrabungen von Privatgräbern durchgeführt. Diese Reihe enthält detaillierte Berichte zu diesen Studien.
Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1994. — 221 p. — (Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens 5). Aston studies the stone types used by the ancient Egyptians in the production of different artefact types. Having made a thorough study of stone vessels in a number of museums, Aston collected stone samples from both known and potential quarry sites. Each stone type is discussed...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 363 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 35). This volume presents a study of the tomb of Kha-em-hat TT 57 at Qurna, West Luxor, which dates back to the 18th Dynasty – the reign of King Amenhotep III. It is considered one of the most important Egyptian tomb discoveries, containing rare scenes and revealing development of the religious rituals of the time. The...
Paris: Editions Cybele, 2001. — 525 р., 50 pl. Aboutissement de longues recherches dans les musées d'Europe, un important volume de base sur les bronzes et l'or égyptien illustré de 50 planches d'objets inédits. Ce livre s'adresse à tout public, les objets étant replacés dans leur contexte historique, auquel chacun s'intéresse. Les égyptologues y trouveront pour leur part la...
Paris: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient Adrien Maisonneuve, 1974. — 342 p., 68 pl. L'un des aspects les plus populaires de l'Egypte ancienne sont ces petites statuettes funéraires dont chaque musée posséde au moins une paire, les plus importants en ayant de armées. Or, depuis l'étude que leur avait consacrée L. Speleers (Les figurines funéraires égyptiennes, Bruxelles 1923)...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 364 p. The Great Oasis of Egypt provides the first full study of the Dakhla and Kharga Oases in antiquity, written by participants in several of the current archaeological projects in this region. The oases were closely tied to Egypt and to each other, but not always easy to control, and their agricultural productivity varied with climatic...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 512 p. — (Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 15). The Dakhleh Oasis Project is a long-term holistic investigation of the evolution of human populations in the changing environmental conditions of this isolated region in the Western Desert of Egypt. The Project began in 1978 and has combined survey and excavation to collect an extensive range of geological,...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. — 358 p. The thousand years from Alexander to the Arab conquest in A.D. 641 are rich in archaeological interest and well documented by 50,000 papyri in Greek, Egyptian, Latin and other languages. But travelers and others interested in the remains of this period are ill-served by most guides to Egypt, which concentrate on the...
I.B.Tauris, 2017. — 418 p. After its conquest by Alexander the Great in 332 bc, Egypt was ruled for the next 300 years by the Ptolemaic dynasty founded by Ptolemy I, one of Alexander’s generals. With the defeat of Cleopatra VII in 30 bc, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, and later of the Byzantine Empire. For a millennium it was one of the wealthiest, most populous...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2004. — 358 p. The thousand years from Alexander to the Arab conquest in A.D. 641 are rich in archaeological interest and well documented by 50,000 papyri in Greek, Egyptian, Latin and other languages. But travelers and others interested in the remains of this period are ill-served by most guides to Egypt, which concentrate on the...
Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 437 p. An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt is a comprehensive overview of Egyptian archaeology skillfully organized to guide the reader from Egypt’s prehistoric past through the pharaonic dynasties and the Greco-Roman Period. Provides an unprecedented introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt and its culture, monuments, and...
Universitas Carolina Pragensis, 1999. — 140 p. This report describes work in the 1980s and 1990s on the tomb of Udjahorresnet, a prominent official who participated in the Persian occupation of Egypt around 525 BC and may even have been one of their main collaborators. As well as chapters on the results of excavations, on the development of the Saite-Persian shaft tomb...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1954. — 196 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 25.1). Durant les deux campagnes 1949-1950 et 1950-1951, Ies fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orieiitale à Karnak-Nord ont podé sur l'étude des vestiges du temple d'Amon-Rê-Montou compris entre la porte monumentale deessée par les...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1954. — 166 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 25.2). Durant les deux campagnes 1949-1950 et 1950-1951, Ies fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orieiitale à Karnak-Nord ont podé sur l'étude des vestiges du temple d'Amon-Rê-Montou compris entre la porte monumentale deessée par les...
Charles University: Faculty of Arts, 2017. — 722 p. The Czech Institute of Egyptology of the Charles University in Prague has since the start of the third millennium established the tradition of organising on a regular basis a platform for scholars, active in the pyramid fields and the cemeteries of the Memphite region (Abusir, Saqqara, Dahshur and Giza in particular), to meet,...
Charles University, 2010. — 460 p. The tombs published in this volume of the Abusir series have been excavated during several seasons at Abusir South. The eight tombs are located in the easternmost sector of Abusir South, on the slopes (tombs AS 20 and AS 33) and at the bottom (tombs AS 34-35, 50-53) of a large but low hill, to the north of the so-called Wadi Abusiri. They do...
Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2001. — 348 p. This report describes work carried out between 1991 and 1993 on a number of Old Kingdom tombs, mostly of lesser officials. Each tomb is given a full treatment with archaeology, architecture, decoration, epigraphic descriptions and a catalogue of significant finds, with the exception of pottery, which will be published separately....
Peeters, 2021. — 216 p. — (Polish Publications in Mediterranean Archaeology 2). The volume is an editio princeps of the Chapel of Thutmosis I, a shrine located in the southern part of the upper terrace of the Theban funerary complex of Hatshepsut. The shrine was built by order of the queen to commemorate her father and housed the pharaoh’s mortuary cult in relation to that...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 94 p. — (BAR International Series 2834). This study documents the corpus of terracotta figurines that were found during excavations at Tell Timai between 2009 and 2013. The study assesses the locations in which terracotta figurines have been found both at Tell Timai and across Egypt, and discusses their usage within the settlements of Pharaonic and...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. — 224 p. — (Menes: Studien zur Kultur und Sprache der ägyptischen Frühzeit und des Alten Reiches 6). Two of the most characteristic aspects of ancient Egyptian culture - kingship and a great attention to death - were present from a very early age. The first kings to rule all of Egypt came to power in approximately 3000 B.C., and the same kings...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. — 255 p. The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells the remarkable true story of Houdin’s obsession with Egypt’s Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the World: how, in an ancient...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. — 255 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-171410-8. The Secret of the Great Pyramid is a thrilling intellectual adventure story about the most exciting discovery in Egyptology in decades. Bob Brier, along with French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, tells the remarkable true story of Houdin’s obsession with Egypt’s Great Pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 170 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 10). The aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 (the reigns of Ptolemy I and Caracalla) from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items (recognised as statues, statue heads and fragments, and inscribed bases and plinths) that...
Museum of Fine Arts, 2000. — 516 p. — (Giza Mastabas 7). This two-volume study of the Senedjemib Complex at Giza by Edward Borovarski owes a great debt to the work of Richard Lepsius in the mid-19th century and George A Reisner who excavated there in the early 20th century. The tombs of Senedjemib Inti (G2370), Khnumenti (G2374) and Senedjemib Mahi (G2378) which form the focus...
British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1927. — 147 p. The work done by the British School of Archaeology in theQau-Badari district occupied the three seasons 1923, 1924, and 1925. There was one camp only for the first and third years, two in 1924, when the Director had his own camp in addition to mine. The I923 party consisted of Mr. C. H. G. Bach, Mr. J. L. Starkey, my wife,...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1937. — 264 p. En vertu d'un accord entre l'Institut français d'Archéologie orientale du Caire, représenté par son directeur, Monsieur P. Jouguet, d'une part , et l'Université de Varsovie, représent ée par Monsieur S. Pienkowski, recteur 1934, et Monsieur W. Antoniewicz, rècteur 1936, d'autre part, il a été décid é, avec l'ass...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1937. — 215 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 15). La concession r oyale attribu ée aux membres des ateliers pharaoniques de la nécropole thébaine et à leurs familles fut choisie dans le vallon de Deir el Médineh , ancien lit de torrent encaissé entre les dernières ramifications de la chaîne...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1948. — 162 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 20.1). Les conditions spéciales créées par la guerre nous font un devoir de réunir en un seul rapport l'exposé des travaux exécutés au cours de cinq saisons, ce qui présente l'avantage de donner en premier lieu la relation des déblaiements...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1952. — 112 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 21). Notre absence de cinq ans sur le chantier de Deir el Médineh avec les perturbations de la guerre et de l'épidémie de malaria qui dévasta la population des villages de la rive gauèhe, n'ont pas été sans un relâchement de la surveillance des...
Peeters, 2021. — 713 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 304). Cet ouvrage se veut un hommage a Beatrix Midant-Reynes, dont la longue carriere de lithicienne, d'archeologue et d'egyptologue est intimement liee a l'Egypte des origines, meme si ses travaux couvrent un large eventail de disciplines. Beatrix Midant-Reynes est une figure majeure des etudes concernant la...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2020. — 566 p. — (Archaeology of Egypt, Sudan and the Levant 1). This volume is the second in a series of monographs presenting the results of the ERC project "AcrossBorders" on the island of Sai in Sudan. Findings from excavations and surveys in various areas of the Egyptian town are used to reconstruct life in the New Kingdom (c. 1530–1070...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2017. — 206 p. — (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 4). The present volume is the first in a series of monographs dedicated to the results achieved by AcrossBorders, a European Research Council Project (Austrian Academy of Sciences and Ludwig Maximilian University Munich). With its so-called Egyptian temple town...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 265 p. As reflected in the title “From Microcosm to Macrocosm: Individual households and cities in Ancient Egypt and Nubia”, both a micro-approach introducing microhistories of individual sites according to recent archaeological fieldwork incorporating interdisciplinary methods as well as general patterns and regional developments in Northeast Africa...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 382 p. New Kingdom burial customs in Nubia (northern Sudan) are well traceable by means of large cemeteries, in particular Egyptian style rock-cut shaft tombs with pyramidal superstructures. These tombs and their contents have lately been discussed as important data sets offering insights into the diverse population, material culture, funerary and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 540 S. — (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte 14). Die Hinterlassenschaften der Gesellschaft des Alten Ägyptens reichen von monumentalen Pyramidenanlagen bis zu mikroskopischen Spuren menschlicher Aktivitäten, von Felsinschriften bis zu Romanen. Wie lässt sich das alles sinnvoll in Bezug stellen und welche Methoden und...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 540 S. — (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte 14). Die Hinterlassenschaften der Gesellschaft des Alten Ägyptens reichen von monumentalen Pyramidenanlagen bis zu mikroskopischen Spuren menschlicher Aktivitäten, von Felsinschriften bis zu Romanen. Wie lässt sich das alles sinnvoll in Bezug stellen und welche Methoden und...
Egypt Exploration Society, 1963. — 194 p. — (Archaeological survey of Egypt 31). An archaeological survey of the rock-cut shrines in Gebel el Silsila (Ancient Egyptian Kheny), a rocky tennel in the Nile between Kom Ombo to the south and Edfu to the north downwards to the river stream. The authors are world-renowned Egyptologists Ricardo Augusto Caminos (1916-1992) and Thomas...
Routledge, 2016. — 194 p. This work published in 1912 to record the pioneering and extremely significant excavation undertaken at Thebes by Howard Carter and his team under the patronage of Lord Carnarvon remains the most sensational work of its kind ever undertaken in the field of Egyptology. The work not only excited the international scholarly community but ignited...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1980. — 118 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 12.1). Avant de donner le compte rendu de la fouille, que nous avons reprise cette année à Deir el-Médineh après dix-huit années d'interruption, il est de notre devoir, à mes camarades et à moi-même, d'exprimer toute notre admiration au fouilleur que...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1980. — 78 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 12.2). Avant de donner le compte rendu de la fouille, que nous avons reprise cette année à Deir el-Médineh après dix-huit années d'interruption, il est de notre devoir, à mes camarades et à moi-même, d'exprimer toute notre admiration au fouilleur que...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 371 p. — (BAR International Series 2828). The Egyptian Museum of Florence has one of the most important ushabti collections in Italy and Europe. The collection contains around eight hundred ushabtis, which originally belonged to different collections: Granducale, Nizzoli, Rosellini, Ricci, Schiaparelli. Other smaller groups contain objects belonging to...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 219 p. — (BAR International Series 2872). Il Museo Egizio di Firenze possiede una delle più importanti collezioni di Ushabti d'Italia e d'Europa. La collezione consta di circa ottocento ushabti, in origine afferenti a diverse collezioni: Granducale, Nizzoli, Rosellini, Ricci, Schiaparelli. Altre raccolte minori afferiscono a differenti acquisizioni...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2012. — 224 p. — (Bibliothèque générale 41). Initié en 2005 par le CFEETK (MSA-USR 3172 du CNRS), le programme de restauration et d’étude du temple d’Opet a conduit à la fouille archéologique du parvis et des abords occidentaux du temple. Douze sondages ont été ouverts durant deux courtes campagnes en 2006 et 2007. Les...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 350 p. The ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with complex security arrangements. Much of this development was arguably driven by the ever-present threat of tomb robbery, which compelled tomb builders to introduce special architectural...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2019. — 350 p. The ancient Egyptian tomb evolved rapidly over a period of about 2,500 years, from a simple backfilled pit to an enormous stone pyramid with complex security arrangements. Much of this development was arguably driven by the ever-present threat of tomb robbery, which compelled tomb builders to introduce special architectural...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 186 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 9.1). Les fouilles de Médamoud, conduites par M. Bisson de la Roque entre les années 1925 et 1931 ont eu des résultats doublement heureux : elles ont non seulement ressuscité un sanctuaire fameux, dédié à Monton cc Maître du Nome de Thèbes dont le...
Centro per le Antichita e la Storia dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1963. — 200 p. — (Via Caroncini 19. Monografie di Archeologia E d'Arte 1). La prima campagna di scavo della Missione Archeologica fu condotta nella località di el-Ghiza, celebre nell’antichità per le grandi piramidi, e oggetto di visite e violazioni innumerevoli, di esplorazione sistematica soltanto nel I 837,...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1939. — 89 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 73). L’ouvrage comporte la publication de deux monuments funéraires du village des artisans de la nécropole royale de Thèbes sur le site de Deir el-Médina. Le premier, publié par J. Vandier d’Abbadie, est la chapelle du chef des...
Brill, 2021. — 543 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 10). The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 presents the results of excavations directed by George A. Reisner and led by Arthur C. Mace. The site of Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, is unusual for its continued use over a long period of time (c. 3500 BCE–650 CE). Burials in N 2000 and N 2500 date...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1924. — 123 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 1.3). Abou-Rûasch est un village qui se trouve en bordure du désert, à 8 kilomètres au nord des pyramides de Gîzé. A côté de ce village, des cimetières musulmans ont maintenu le caractère funéraire de cette région. Sous cette dénomination arabe...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1925. — 146 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 2.1). M. G. Foucart m'a chargé, au printemps 1924, de terminer le déblaiement du quartier de cimetière, commencé en 1922 dans la nécropole F, du groupe du site d'Abou-Roasch qui se trouve contre le village de ce nom (voir Rapport 1922-1923, p. 2 et pl....
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1930. — 142 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 7.1). L'entrée principale de l'enceinte sacrée est située dans le mur ouest de cette enceinte. C'est une porte du type de celle d'Évergète elevant le temple de Khonsou et de celle de l'enceinte de Montou à Karnak. Pocoke , pendant la première moitié du...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1931. — 115 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 8.1). Le grand déblaiement de cette année a étendu la fouille de l'enceinte du temple, en prolongeant vers le sud celle de 1929, et vers l'ouest celle de 1927. Le mur d'enceinte ptolémaïque et romaine a son angle intérieur sud-ouest à 59 mètres de la...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1933. — 102 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 9.3). Une avenue de sphinx conduisait de l'enceinte sacrée à un quai, où devait aboutir un canal unissant Karnak à Médamoud, pour les processions par voie d'eau. Cette avenue était un chemin de grosses dalles de grès, orné de chaque côté d'une rangée...
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 109 p. — (BAR International Series 2571). The book presents issues relating to the oldest known examples of human mortuary practices from the area of Northern Egypt and dating to the end of the Early Dynastic period. The research surveys changes in sepulchral architecture, offerings, body positioning and other elements of generally understood burial...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. — 180 p. — (Giza Mastabas 1). On my first visit to Egypt in 1951 I had the opportunity to stay with the late William Stevenson Smith and to accompany him on several occasions to the mastaba of Queen Mersyankh 111, where he was engaged in revising and correcting the drawings of the chapel discovered by Reisner’s expedition in 1927. It seemed likely...
Archaeopress, 2014. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series 2593). The study of furniture and its production is a window into both the social position of its owner and the techniques and social organization of the craftsmen. This book comprises an examination and analysis of chairs, stools and footstools of the New Kingdom (ca.1550-1069 B.C.) which are preserved...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 367 p. — (The Asyut Project 17). One of the important outcomes of the long-term Egyptian-German co-operation in archaeological fieldwork at the necropolis of Asyut is the discovery of Tomb N13.1 in 2005. The tomb was discovered by the members of The Asyut Project while surveying the necropolis of Asyut for the purpose of mapping. Tomb N13.1...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1987. — 65 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 33). The excavation report published in the following pages is the result of work carried out by Dr Aly el-Khouly and the writer in the royal necropolis at El- 'Amarna between 16 March and 14 April 1984, and as a direct result of observations made by the...
Oxbow Books, 2024. — 138 p. — (Oxbow Classics in Egyptology). This volume is a facsimile reissue of the full publication of the tomb identified as that of Amenemhab, a middle ranking priest of Amon. The tomb lies within the lower enclosure of the major cemetery of Elwet Sheikh-Abdel Qurnah in Thebes. It is cut into a perpendicular cliff of limestone and shale and is one of the...
Egypt Exploration Society, 1979. — 212 p. Buhen is a large fortress in Nubia (Cush), on the west bank of the Nile, north of the Second Threshold. It was built by Pharaoh Senusert III (ca. 1878-1839 BC) by the XII dynasty (XX-XIX centuries BC) of the Middle Kingdom ca. 1860 BC It had the task of exercising control over the newly conquered territories in North Sudan and serving...
British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1915. — 107 p. The excavations at Riqqeh were begun early in December 1912, and were continued for four months, concurrently with those of Prof. Petrie at Kafr 'Ammar. Some graves had been noticed by one of our workmen, Aly es-Sweyfy, between Kafr 'Ammar and the village of El-Gerzeh, at which place the prehistoric and some of the...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1935. — 46 p. Compte rendu archéologique de l'excavation d'un groupe de sept tombes de l'Ancien Empire près de la Grande Pyramide de Guizeh.
Cairo General organisation for government printing offices, 1961. — 192 p. The 1950s the great Egyptian archaeologist Ahmed Fakhry conducted excavations at the pyramids of Dahshur. During his work he discovered a great number of relief fragments from the decoration of the valley temple of the Bent Pyramid of King Snefru at Dahshur. This temple is the oldest decorated pyramid...
University Museum Philadelphia, 1924. — 299 p. — (The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Foundation. New Series I). This volume, the ninth in the series of publications of the Egyptian Section of the University Museum, is the first of several volumes which will record the results of the excavations made from 1915 onward by the Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition. It deals with the work done on a...
School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907. — 167 p. The work of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, during the past winter, lay partly at Gizeh, and partly in the district between Asyut and Sohiig. The reason for this division was that only a small part of Gizeh was available, not enough for a season's work, the whole of the pyramid region being already occupied by American...
Oxbow Books, 2024. — 166 p. — (With Herbert Thompson and W. E. Crum). An important examination of Coptic monastery ruins producing many fragments of Coptic manuscripts. Facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2024. — 151 p. — (Untersuchungen der Zweigstelle Kairo des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 42). With contributions by Ernst Czerny and Tomasz Herbich This volume is the first in a series of monographs dealing with the research of the Cairo Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the site of Kom Ombo. Kom Ombo is situated...
Brill, 2017. — 1957 S. — (Probleme der Ägyptologie 34). Henning Franzmeier stellt in Die Gräberfelder von Sedment im Neuen Reich die vollständigen Ergebnisse der bisher nur teilweise veröffentlichten Ausgrabungen der W.M.F. Petrie und G. Brunton von 1920 bis 1921 auf den Friedhöfen des Neuen Reichs in Sedment, Mittelägypten. Durch seine Forschungen hat Franzmeier den Korpus der...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1902. — 103 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 6). A la sortie du village de Maharraq, au-delà de l'étang, on découvre le désert dont les hzmteurs abruptes et éblouissantes dominent un cimetiere moderne; les tombes, qui se devinent aux pierres émergeant de la nappe...
Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2004. — 210 p. — (BAR International Series 1208) This detailed study of warfare in early Egypt is firmly based on the material evidence of weapons discovered on prehistoric and Early Dynastic sites as well as the earliest images of hunting or warfare. The weapons, which mainly comprise Paleolithic and Neolithic daggers, maces, arrowheads, spears, staffs,...
Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2004. — 98 p. — (BAR International Series 1260) Dans cette étude, l'auteur explore tous les aspects du chien et les origines de l'animal au début de l' Egypte et le Soudan - sauvage et domestiqué, divine et bâtarde. Inclus sont un catalogue de découvertes connexes et un Gazetteer des sites clés. ----- In this study the author explores all aspects of the...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1929. — 28 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 6.4). Les fouilles de Tell Edfou, interrompues depuis 1924, ont été reprises par l'Institut français au débnt de 1928. Commencés lard et menés avec des moyens restreints, les travaux de. cette année avaient surtout pour but de reprendre possession du...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 1091 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 49). The ancient Egyptian Civilization dominated the northeast corner of Africa—including modern-day Egypt and, at times, northern Sudan—from about 3000 BC at the beginning of the Dynastic period to AD 642 at the end of the Roman period. Most of what it left behind consists of stones of many kinds. There were building...
Oxford University Press, 1932. — 212 p. The Necropolis of Giza has attracted the attention of Egyptologists for more than a hundred years. During the nineteenth century many explorers worked in different parts of it, clearing tombs here and there, and in some cases unfortunately leaving no record of their discoveries. At the beginning of the present century it was divided up by...
Government Press - Bulâq, 1936. — 338 p. The aim of these reports is to give a detailed account of the monuments as they were discovered. A special volume will be devoted to the historical and archaeological results of our discoveries. Work began this season on December 6, 1930, on the spot lying to the west of the tomb of Re'-wer. We were better equipped for work this season,...
Government Press - Bulâq, 1941. — 382 p. The aim of this volume is, like that of the preceding ones to give a somewhat detailed report on the tombs of the Giza Necropolis and their contents, j ust as they were discovered ; and further, to provide a list of all the official titles, personal names and divine names that have come to light in our excavations during the first three...
Government Press - Bulâq, 1943. — 293 p. Our aim for this season's work was the clearance of the Fourth Pyramid Complex, part of which, as mentioned above, actually came to light during our previous season's work, and of which we entertained great hopes of important discoveries, but the large number of small objects just referred to necessitated our finding another magazine in...
Government Press - Bulâq, 1944. — 435 p. We commenced oux fifth season's work on September 23, 1933 in a crowded part of the Giza necropolis lying to the north and east of the Pyramid of Queen Khentkawes (see General Plan). The aim of our work was to clear that area lying behind the row of rock-cut tombs to the north of the Fourth Pyramid, in order to ascertain if any...
Government Press, 1946. — 384 p. The aim of our sixth season's work was the complete clearance of the causeway of the Second Pyramid, (the eastern and western extremities of which had been exposed for a number of years) and also the clearance cf that part of the necropolis lying to the south of this causeway (see General Plan). As a natural sequence to the complete revelation...
Government Press, 1953. — 422 p. Of all the monuments in which Egypt abounds, there is not one which stimulates the imagination to the same extent as the Great Sphinx of Giza, the magnificent man-headed lion which gazes eternally out over the fertile Valley of the Nile, with its face to the rising sun. Who has not heard of the Sphinx, the monster whose very name has become a...
Government Press, 1960. — 176 p. This short season began in the autumn of 1938 and was discontinued early in the year of 1939. It was my aim to clear away the mounds of disfiguring debris, which encumbered the eastern and southern faces oi the Great Pyramid of Giza. The area, in which we worked in the eastern face of the Pyramid, had been dug over since ancient times, and there...
Princeton University Press, 1935. — 260 p. — (Princeton Monographs of Art and Archaeology, quarto series XIX). The monograph is dedicated to the royal sarcophagi from the XVIIIth Dynasty of the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt (XVIII-XIV centuries BC). In addition to a catalog describing the sarcophagi and their decoration, the book also contains valuable historical notes helping...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 558 S. — (Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde – Beihefte 8). Gegenstand der Publikation ist die bis heute ausstehende Aufarbeitung der Keramikbestände von Friedhof S/SA aus dem unternubischen Aniba. Die von Georg Steindorff im Verlaufe seiner Grabungen von 1912 und 1914 entdeckten und ausgewählten Keramikbestände werden auf ihre...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1924. — 72 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 1.2). La campagne entreprise par l'Institut français sur l'emplacement de l'ancienne Apollinopolis magna avait pour but premier, comme celle de 1914, la recherche de papyrus grecs. En fait, la fouille nous a apporté, outre un lot important de papyrus...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1925. — 66 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 2.3). Les fouilles de 1923 et 1924 ont complété notre connaissance de l'Edfou arabe et copte, et nous ont permis d'atteindre la couche gréco-romaine. La campagne de 1923 a étendu la fouille du Ier secteur ( 1922) du côté du mur d'enceinte du temple. En...
Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2004. — 131 p. — (BAR International Series 1223) Excavations of Predynastic and early Dynastic cemeteries in Abydos revealed examples of cylinder seal impressions which depicted geometric symbols, rows of animals and single figures or objects, such as boats or birds. This detailed study focuses on finds from each tomb complex in turn before Hill places...
Eisenbrauns, 2014. — 536 p. Between 1999 and 2008, a team of experts and specialists worked together at Tell el-Borg, a site in north Sinai, in the delta region of Egypt. This volume comprises the first report on the site. Tell el-Borg, as it turned out, was composed of four significant areas: the military zone where two forts were found (Fields IV, V, and VIII), the public...
B.A.R., 1989. — 496 p. Despite nearly a century of research into the Predynastic of Egypt, it is only recently that the flint artifacts of this period have really begun to be systematically studied. Scholars excavating in the late 19th Century and the first half of the present century concentrated their efforts on cemetery sites rather than habitation areas. The cemeteries...
The University of Chicago Press, 1934. — 102 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 21). In conjunction with its epigraphic survey of the temples at Medinet Habu, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has undertaken and carried to completion the excavation of the buildings surrounding the great temple of Rameses III and is now publishing a comprehensive...
The University of Chicago Press, 1939. — 212 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 41). Medinet Habu, the "Town of Habu," is the Arabic designation for a late Egyptian settlement which grew up within and in front of the fortified mortuary temple of Ramesses III and flourished until medieval times. The present volume deals with the structures which preceded the Ramessid period....
The University of Chicago Press, 1941. — 154 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 54). Ramesses III’s great temple complex at Medinet Habu is distinguished from other royal mortuary temples in Egypt above all by the circumstance that much of the temple structure itself still stands and that excavation has made comparatively clear the entire temenos with all subsidiary...
The University of Chicago Press, 1951. — 126 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 55). The excavator of Medinet Habu provides a thrilling retrospective of the architectural creation of Ramesses III. With contributions by Rudolf Anthes, Translated by Elizabeth B. Hauser.
The University of Chicago Press, 1954. — 148 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 66). Ramesses III’s great temple complex at Medinet Habu is distinguished from other royal mortuary temples in Egypt above all by the circumstance that much of the temple structure itself still stands and that excavation has made comparatively clear the entire temenos with all subsidiary...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 137 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 44). Papers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference Dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen This volume presents papers from the Fourth Australasian Egyptology Conference held at Monash University, Melbourne 16–18 September 2016. Both the conference and the papers in this volume are dedicated to Gillian E. Bowen who...
New York: Timken Publishers, 1990. — 221 p. This book remains one of the most erudite yet accessible tours of the Egyptian royal tombs, asolid record of treasures now in peril from the depredations of tourists and the changing Nile valley climate. Not only does the distinguished Swiss Egyptologist make the tomb paintings real for readers by use of plans and 151 color plates, he...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 438 p. — (Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt, Nubia and the Levant 16). The Late Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period were the heyday for scarab seals with names in Ancient Egypt. During this time, names of kings and non-royal individuals occur on hundreds of scarabs and their impressions making scarabs one of the primary...
Brill, 2021. — 302 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 113). In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties (1550-1069 BC). A wider insight into the...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 99 p. — (BAR International Series 2927). Le présent volume rassemble les résultats des dix premières années de fouilles archéologiques espagnoles menées dans la nécropole de Qoubbet el-Hawa. Il s'ouvre sur un aperçu historique de la province la plus méridionale de l'Égypte dans l'Antiquité afin de contextualiser les vestiges funéraires découverts à...
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1929. — 337 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1934. — 246 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938. — 280 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1940. — 133 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1950. — 315 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1941. — 240 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1943. — 308 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1944. — 332 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1947. — 237 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1951. — 247 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1953. — 336 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1955. — 288 S. — (Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften). Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza.
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. — 402 p. — (The Asyut Project 18). This volume introduces latest research on the necropolis of ancient Asyut and a broad spectrum of different topics. It opens with a deep insight in the long history of the ancient town of Asyut and its different functions throughout history, followed by a contribution highlighting the connections between the...
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1999. — 74 p. — (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 11). Detailed report on two tombs from the Teti cemetery. The evidence includes: the tomb owner, his family and dependents, dating, architectural features, the burial apartment, scenes and inscriptions, sarcophagus, finds and inscribed fragment.
Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre. Macquarie University, 1984. — 80 p. , 47 pl. A detailed archaeological account of the excavations at Saqqara northwest of the Pyramid of Teti. Conducted by Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Sydney: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre. Macquarie University, 1988. — 48 p. , 49 pl. These volumes cover the excavations at Saqqara by the team from Macquarie University. The second volume uncovers tombs which are new. This well-thought out format is clear and concise and includes all types of material from all periods, from inscribed tombs to the poorer burials...
Sydney: The Australian Centre for Egyptology, 1996 — 76 p., 61 pl. — (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 8) A look specifically at the tombs of Nedjet-em-pet, Ka-aper, Ibi, Geref/Itji and their families & dependents. This volume records finds so far cleared from the present excavation to the north of Teti's pyramid (Sixth Dynasty), jointly conducted by the Australian...
Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1997 — 74 p., 73 pl. — (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 9) The mastaba of Ankhmahor, a vizier of Teti (Dynasty 6), is a monument at Saqqara. The present volume represents a record of the chapels and burial chambers of Ankhmahor and his son Ishfi, based on new photographs, architectural plans and facsimile drawings of its scenes and...
The Macquarie Ancient History Association, 1983. — 97 p. El Hawawish is the name given to the site of the ancient necropolis (cemetery) for the city of Akhmim in the Sohag Governorate, Egypt.Similar to nearby Akhmim, the local deity of El Hawawish was the fertility and productivity god Min.Tombs of the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period are located in the El Hawawish...
Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 2006 — 78 p., 82 pl. — (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 24) Located on the northern limits of the Teti Cemetery, the Tomb of Inumin is dated to the earlier part of the reign of Pepy I. The chapel is formed of five rooms, three of which are beautifully decorated with scenes of daily life clearly influenced by the neighbouring rich tomb...
Aris & Phillips, 2001. — 134 p. Provides a much needed summary overview of the key elements of Egyptian tomb form, use and decoration over time. The tombs, with their scenes, inscriptions, objects and human remains, represent our richest source of information for the understanding of Egyptian beliefs and practices, art and architecture and of many aspects of daily life....
The Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2001. — 122 p. — (Australian Centre for Egyptology 16). The Giza plateau is one of the most integrated sites of Egypt because it was systematically planned by three prominent Fourth Dynasty rulers and used by their officials and their decendents to the end of the Old Kingdom. Giza is the most important archaeological site for the study of...
The Australian Centre for Egyptology, 2002. — 137 p. — (Australian Centre for Egyptology 16). The Giza plateau is one of the most integrated sites of Egypt because it was systematically planned by three prominent Fourth Dynasty rulers and used by their officials and their decendents to the end of the Old Kingdom. Giza is the most important archaeological site for the study of...
Egypt Exploration Society, 2010. — 640 p. — (Excavation Memoir 90). Between 2002 and 2006, the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to Amarna made a detailed study of the house of the chariot-officer Ranefer, first excavated in 1921. Particular attention was paid to the remains of an underlying earlier and smaller house that had been largely demolished to make way for...
Egypt Exploration Society, 2010. — 574 p. — (Excavation Memoir 91). Between 2002 and 2006, the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to Amarna made a detailed study of the house of the chariot-officer Ranefer, first excavated in 1921. Particular attention was paid to the remains of an underlying earlier and smaller house that had been largely demolished to make way for...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 261 p. This volume contains detailed information about 63 sites and shows, amongst other things, that the viticulture of the western delta was significant in Ptolemaic and Roman periods, as well as a network of interlocking sites, which connected with the rest of Egypt, Alexandria, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean. Far from being a...
Gerstenberg Verlag, 1998. — 292 S. — (Hildesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 43). Archäologische Untersuchung der Hauptkultkammer, die den Paviangottheiten von Tuna el Gebel gewidmet ist. Das Denkmal stammt aus der frühen ptolemäischen Zeit (spätes 4. und frühes 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.) und wurde in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren von einer deutschen archäologischen Expedition...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019. — 461 p. — (The Asyut Project 12). Das kooperative Langzeitvorhaben Die altägyptische Nekropole von Assiut: Dokumentation und Interpretation wurde in den Jahren 2005 bis 2019 von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft gefordert. Andrea Kilian untersucht in Band 12 des Asyut Projects die Keramikfunde der Ersten Zwischenzeit und des Mittleren Reiches...
Peeters, 2021. — 841 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 303). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference 'Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt', Vienna, 10th - 15th September 2017 This volume represents the 6th installment of proceedings of the successful international conference series "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt",...
University Press of Colorado, 2021. — 218 p. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science acquired two ancient Egyptian mummies and three coffins. The mummies are the remains of two women who lived in an unknown locale in ancient Egypt. They both died in their thirties and have now been subjected to a number of unpublished scientific and unscientific analyses...
Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague, 2014. — 301 p.: 30 pl. — (Abusir 24). The monograph evaluates results of the archaeological research of the area of the Fifth-Dynasty Tomb AC 26 (formerly known as Pyramid Lepsius no. 23) and Late Sixth-Dynasty Tombs AC 32 carried out by the Czech Institute of Egyptology during three archaeological seasons...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 478 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 168). Spätestens seit der 6. Dynastie und bis in ptolemäisch-römische Zeit wurden im Alten Ägypten Rituale gegen Feinde durchgeführt. Zielpersonen waren alle als feindlich empfundenen Entitäten, von Rebellen in den eigenen Reihen...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2000. — 162 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 130.2). En 1928 et 1929 l’égyptologue anglais Cecil M. Firth commençait le dégagement du complexe funéraire d’Ouserkaf, le premier roi de la Ve dynastie (vers 2465-2358 av. J.-C.), ainsi que celui d’une petite pyramide située juste au sud, que l’on peut désormais attribuer à son épouse. Renonçant...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2000. — 204 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 130.1). En 1928 et 1929 l’égyptologue anglais Cecil M. Firth commençait le dégagement du complexe funéraire d’Ouserkaf, le premier roi de la Ve dynastie (vers 2465-2358 av. J.-C.), ainsi que celui d’une petite pyramide située juste au sud, que l’on peut désormais attribuer à son épouse. Renonçant...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2002. — 93 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 134.2). Dans la nécropole de Memphis, des allées couvertes conduisant aux pyramides reliaient le monde des vivants au monde des morts. Elles permettaient d'atteindre les tombeaux construits sur le plateau depuis les temples de la Vallée. La chaussée du monument d'Ounas, qui règne au coeur de...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2002. — 120 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 134.1). Dans la nécropole de Memphis, des allées couvertes conduisant aux pyramides reliaient le monde des vivants au monde des morts. Elles permettaient d'atteindre les tombeaux construits sur le plateau depuis les temples de la Vallée. La chaussée du monument d'Ounas, qui règne au coeur de...
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976 - 248 p. The necropolis of Saqqara is not only one of the oldest, but also one of the two largest in Ancient Egypt. It served Memphis, the first capital of the united state from the time of the Old Kingdom through the Late Period and the Greco-Roman era. Incomparable with its richly decorated tombs and majestic pyramids, it has been the...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1972. — 161 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 51). Le temple funéraire de rois Teti, révélé par James Edward Quibell en 1906, est relié au temple de la vallée (deconstruit en l' Antiquité pour construir un temple d' Anoubis dans ca place) par une chaussée. Le plan du temple de Teti est également comparable à celui d'Unas, son prédécesseur...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 2015. — 377 p. — (Bibliothèque d'étude 162). Depuis 50 ans, la Mission archéologique française de Saqqâra fouille inlassablement les sables du désert égyptien. Conçue en 1963 par ses deux éminents fondateurs, Jean Leclant et Jean-Philippe Lauer, elle s’est consacrée longuement à l’étude des Textes des Pyramides, enrichissant par ses...
Philipp von Zabern, 1985. — 105 p. — (Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 19). Reisner's explanation for the burial assembly of Hetepheres I (found intact, except for the queen's body, in an unmarked tomb) is contested and an alternative explanation is developed. The unfinished pyramid cutting immediately south of, and on line with, the queen's...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. — 411 p. This book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the 15th-century bc tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. A general account was published by Herbert Winlock in 1948 (The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The...
New Kingdom Research Foundation, 2014. — 109 p. The wadis which lie to the west of the main Theban mountain were last officially explored by Howard Carter in 1916 and 1917. He suggested in a subsequent article that these wadis might contain the burial ground of the XVIIIth dynasty royal family members whose burials were then missing. The granting of the concession to excavate...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 455 p. — (BAR International Series 2756). Tell el-Ghaba project was born as part of an international project launched in the early 1990s by the Egyptian government and UNESCO to save the monuments of North Sinai threatened by the imminent construction of the El-Salam Canal and its distributaries. This is the third volume of the work undertaken by the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916. — 299 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 1). On October 15, 1906, the Trustees of the Museum voted to establish a department of Egyptian art, and at the same time authorized the organization of an expedition to undertake work in Egypt on behalf of the Museum. The programme adopted for the expedition...
Peeters, 2019. — 325 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 10). Moving beyond typological and stylistic discourses on Egyptian statuary, the papers gathered here seek to explore the architectural, cultic and production contexts of statuary, to shed light on religious or cultural practices, and the political or economic agenda behind the display or hiding of these...
Peeters, 2021. — 801 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 300). Le quartier des pretres est un quartier residentiel situe dans le sanctuaire d'Amon a Karnak, a l'est du lac Sacre. Au cours du premier millenaire avant notre ere, il a ete presque continuellement occupe par des pretres le temps de leur service cultuel. Un programme de recherche lance en 2001 par le Centre...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 375 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 24). The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment – an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun’s disc, and its form is planar, although it occasionally has a concave shape (in such cases, it protects the head as a funerary cap). The earliest known example...
The primary goal of this study is the reclassification of Egyptian watercraft models from the standard 1898 George Reisner Typology. The Reisner Typology was based on hull shape, aesthetic attributes, age, and the function of the watercraft as if it were real. Further, the 1990 Dilwyn Jones Typology of the New Kingdom Tutankhamun flotilla that does not follow Reisner, was based...
Typographie Jourde et Allard, 1947. — 232 p. L'enquête détaillée de la nécropole royale de Tanis (la capitale du pays durant la Troisième Période Intermédiaire - XI-VIII s. av. J.-C.) pour le célèbre égyptologue français Pierre Montet (1905-1966) est l'œuvre de sa vie, à laquelle il consacre plus depuis 12 ans. Ses plus grandes découvertes qu'il a faites en 1939-1940. La...
Typographie Jourde et Allard, 1951. — 489 p. L'enquête détaillée de la nécropole royale de Tanis (la capitale du pays durant la Troisième Période Intermédiaire - XI-VIII s. av. J.-C.) pour le célèbre égyptologue français Pierre Montet (1905-1966) est l'œuvre de sa vie, à laquelle il consacre plus depuis 12 ans. Ses plus grandes découvertes qu'il a faites en 1939-1940. La...
Brill, 2020. — 377 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 7). In Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery, the excavation team provides crucial information about the Old Kingdom and Graeco-Roman Egypt. While both periods have been heavily studied, Kerry Muhlestein and his contributors provide new archaeological information that will help shape thinking about...
Bernard Quaritch, 1904. — 166 p. In the winter of 1901-02 Mr. St. G. Caulfeild undertook the further examination of the temple of Sety at Abydos. Our work there resulted in finding the temenos wall, and showing the connection between the planning of that temple and the Royal Tombs of the early kings on the desert behind it. These results, and his careful study of the plan of...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1938. — 140 p. — (Documents de Fouilles de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 10). DFIFAO est une série de rapports de fouilles archéologiques menées principalement à Deir El Medina (ostraca, graffitis, matériel onomastique, etc.). La série comprend également d'autres sujets, tels que le Trésor de Todd et d'autres.
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1938. — 258 p. — (Documents de Fouilles de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 10). Ce volume des DFIFAO comprend la publication des céramiques datées du Nouvel Empire provenant du site de Deir el-Médina et mises au jour durant les campagnes de fouilles de 1928, 1929 et 1930. La documentation de l'ouvrage est étudiée...
L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1929. — 45 p. — (Fouilles de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire 6.3). La falaise qui limite toute la partie nord du chantier principal de Deir el Médineh se prolonge jusqu'au temple qu'elle surplombe, puis elle se retire dans la direction du nord-ouest. Dans cette région quelques grandes cavernes s'ouvrent à ses...
Peeters, 2021. — 313 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 12). In 1897 Jacques de Morgan published a map of the Memphite necropolis, showing for the first time a pair of catacombs for mummified dogs. No further information was given and the catacombs remained largely un-investigated until the 21st century. In 2009 the Catacombs of Anubis Project was set up by...
Peeters, 2020. — 285 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 9). Throughout their long histories, Egypt’s monuments have been adapted, reused and reimagined. At Abydos, the tombs of the first kings became a locus of the national cult of Osiris, which continued with permutations into the Roman period. In Late Antiquity, the Oracle of Bes drew an international...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 173 p. — (BAR International Series 2431). The dome shaped object commonly referred to as a 'cone on the head' originated in tomb scenes of the early New Kingdom. At first, it appeared in very few scenes and the type of scene in which it was included was limited. Its depiction increased in frequency and by category of scene, until by the Twentieth Dynasty...
School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909. — 86 p. The work at Memphis stands on a footing different from any previous excavations of mine. A season is only time enough to sample various parts of such a site, and no subject there can be worked out in less than two or three years. To clear the temple sites alone would take probably twenty years, as it is only possible to work for a...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 358 p. Ancient Egyptians always had an intense and complex relationship with animals in daily life as well as in religion. Despite the fact that research on this relationship has been a topic of study, gaps in our knowledge still remain. This volume presents well over 30 contributions that explore Human-Animal relationships from the Predynastic to the...
Bernard Quaritch, 1900. — 54 p. The accompanying plates were prepared by Mr. J. E. Quibell and Mr. F. W. Green, shortly after the objects arrived in England in 1898 ; but Mr. Quibell's worlr on the Catalogue of the Ghizeh Museum, to which he was appointed in that year, and his subsequent inspectorship of the monuments, together with long delays in the preparation of the plan,...
The University Museum Philadelphia, 1911. — 224 p. — (Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia 8). These are the two concluding volumes of the Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia. They deal with the exploration of the ancient Egyptian colony of Buhen, which is situated near the Second Cataract almost opposite the modern town of Halfa. Two season, those of 1909 and 1910,...
The University Museum Philadelphia, 1911. — 268 p. — (Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia 7). These are the two concluding volumes of the Eckley B. Coxe Junior expedition to Nubia. They deal with the exploration of the ancient Egyptian colony of Buhen, which is situated near the Second Cataract almost opposite the modern town of Halfa. Two season, those of 1909 and 1910,...
Sidestone Press, 2024. — 444 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 31). The five tombs dealt with in this book were explored between 2009 and 2017 by the Leiden-Turin Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. All of them can be described as minor tombs, constructed wherever some space was still available in the cemetery between the...
Sidestone Press, 2020. — 432 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 22). The two tombs dealt with in this book were discovered in 2007 and 2010 by the Leiden Expedition in the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara. Both date to the transition period between the reign of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the return to orthodoxy under his successor...
Brepols Publishers, 2014. — 354 p. — (PALMA Egyptology: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 10). This funerary monument of a high Memphite official was discovered by a joint expedition of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities and Leiden University in 2001. Meryneith started his career as steward of the Memphite temple of the sun god Aten during the reign of the...
Oxbow, 2009. — 206 p. Delta Reports is a new series that will make available the substantial amount of archaeological work that has been undertaken in the Delta region of Egypt over recent decades. Volume I contains work done in and around the temple of Ba-neb-djed in the North-west temenos at Tel er-Rub'a (Mendes), material that was previously published in the ATP newsletter...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022. — 200 p. Theban Tomb 188 is the sole archaeological site in the ancient Theban necropolis securely dated to the reign of the “heretic pharaoh” Akhenaten (1353–1336 BCE). The result of several years of clearance and recording by Dr. Susan Redford, director of the Akhenaten Temple Project’s Theban Tomb Survey, this richly illustrated...
Routledge, 2009. — 229 p. — (Studies in Egyptology). Commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of work in the royal burial ground by the 5th Earl of Carnavon and Howard Carter, this book presents an up-to-date review of the developments in excavation, mapping and research in the Valley of the Kings.
Kegan Paul International, 1990. — 436 p. Monograph by Nicholas Reeves (b. 1956), a well-known with his erudition scholar of the Theban necropolis. The story begins with the lavish burials of the great rulers of the New Kingdom in the Valley of the Kings, to go through the decline of ruling dynasties until the sunset of this majestic cultural monument, when against the...
Peeters, 2019. — 353 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 8). This volume is the first of two complementary volumes that explore Abydos through the lenses of the latest archaeological, archival and collections research, building upon a colloquium and workshop held at the British Museum in 2015. A second volume (Abydos in the First Millennium AD, BMPES 9)...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1967. — 435 p. Two-volume archeological report on the excavations in the ancient Egyptian fortresses on the former border of Nubia, along the Second Threshold of the Nile: Semna, Kumma, Uronarty, Shalfak, Mirgisa. The study is the work of Prof. George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942). The fortresses were built during the Middle Kingdom - from the reign of...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1960. — 435 p. Two-volume archeological report on the excavations in the ancient Egyptian fortresses on the former border of Nubia, along the Second Threshold of the Nile: Semna, Kumma, Uronarty, Shalfak, Mirgisa. The study is the work of Prof. George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942). The fortresses were built during the Middle Kingdom - from the reign of...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1995. — 430 p. — (Giza Mastabas 6). In the latter part of the Fifth Dynasty the necropolis that surrounded the Fourth Dynasty pyramids of Giza again became a popular site for the tombs of Memphite officials. A particular cluster of these mastaba tombs was excavated between 1936 and 1939 by George Andrew Reisner. Some of the tomb chapels were found to be...
Phaidon, 1977. — 224 p. The culture of Ancient Egypt survived as a recognizable entity for some 3000 years and it is salutary to remember that the pyramids of the Old Kingdom are separated from the great temples of the Greek Period by a greater interval than that which separates those same temples from our own day. Obviously the material remains of such a long-lived...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 793 p. — (The Asyut Project 7). Gebel Asyut al-gharbi, one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, is crucial in understanding both its history and culture of this country. Despite a great wealth of remains our knowledge of Asyut and some periods of time concerning the site is still scant. Contrary to wide-held belief, activities...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1957. — 146 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 21). The subject of this publication is the 25 stelae-panels which we have discovered in the excavations at Helwan. Such objects were little known previously and were never before found in such numbers on any other site.
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1947. — 173 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 3). The subject ofthis publication is a collection of successizle preliminary reports of the Royal Excavations at Saqqara and Helwan which were regularly given for publication i n the Annales du Service des Antiquites, each time the season's work was closed....
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1951. — 162 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 14). The subject of this publication is a study and description of some tombs and objects found during my fourth and fifth season's work in the Royal Excavation at Helwan. It was my intention to publish in full the progress of the work, season by season, but...
Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2018. — 263 p. This updated and expanded annotated bibliography presents and describes over 1,200 books, dissertations, excavation reports, and articles relevant to the paleopathology of the ancient Egyptians from the fields of Egyptology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, making it possible for scholars in these...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 338 p. — (BAR International Series 2940). Los ataúdes de Pairusejer y Ruru procedentes del lote nº 13 de la Cachette de Bab el-Gasus, que forman parte de la colección egipcia del Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid), se analizan en profundidad en este estudio a través de técnicas instrumentales como SEM, imagen VIL, FRX y FTIR. Estas permiten entender...
New York: Abbeville Press, 1978. — 159 p. "Can you see anything?" Lord Carnarvon asked the archaeologist Howard Carter as he shone his searchlight through a hole in the door of the tomb that, until that hour, had been sealed for three thousand years. "Yes, wonderful things," was Carter's reply and perhaps the understatement of the century. For in the tomb of the boy-king...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1980. — 184 p. — (Giza Mastabas 4). Publication of four major mastabas and six subsidiary tombs of the Old Kingdom in the Giza Western Cemetery: Sekhemka; Tjetu I; Iasen; Penmeru; Hagy, Nefertjentet and Herunefer; Djaty, Tjetu II and Nimesti.
Museum of Fine Arts, 1987. — 180 p. — (Giza Mastabas 3). Publication of three major mastabas of the Old Kingdom in the Giza Eastern Cemetery, more than fifty years since they were excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.
Museum of Fine Arts, 1976. — 161 p. — (Giza Mastabas 2). This volume comprises the publication of two major Sixth Dynasty mastabas in the Giza Eastern Cemetery. The tomb complexes of Qar (G7101) and Idu (G7102) were first excavated by Reisner in 1924-5, and later by the Pennsylvania-Yale Archaeological Expedition and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1974.
Archaeopress, 2022. — 412 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 40). 'Tomb Families' investigates the apparently random distribution of New Kingdom private tombs in the Theban Necropolis by focusing on factors which may have influenced tomb location. The Theban Necropolis contains hundreds of tombs belonging to elite individuals, dating from the end of the Old Kingdom through to the...
Archaeopress, 2014. — 220 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 3). In February 2013, the Symposium Body, Cosmos and Eternity: the Symbolism of Coffins in Ancient Egypt convened at the historical building of the University of Porto to debate conceptual frameworks underlying the contemporary study of Egyptian coffins. Rising from the close association with the depiction of the mummified...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — (British Archaeological Reports International Series 3010). This volume proposes a theoretical and methodological framework for the study of "yellow" coffins, which is one of the most extensive corpus of funerary objects from Ancient Egypt, and the most complex in terms of decoration. It presents a synthetic view on Egyptian coffin decoration during the...
Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1999 — 114 p., 54 pl. — (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 12) Publication of a cemetery of minor burials excavated by the Australian Centre for Egyptology at the Teti Cemetery (Saqqara) in 1994 and 1995, under the overall direction of Prof. Naguib Kanawati. The burials range in date from the mid-18th Dynasty down to the Persian Period....
British Museum Press, 2008. — 227 p. The first monograph on the British Museum fieldwork at Kom Firin in Egypt's Nile Delta, a settlement created around the time of Ramses II, and occupied until late Antiquity. This volume focuses on the survey and remote sensing of the site, along with a full publication of the Ramesside temple.
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 308 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 21). Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial...
Peter Lang, 1991. — 124 S. — (Münchener ägyptologische Untersuchungen 2). Im Jahre 1902 erhielt die Universität Leipzig eine Grabungskonzession für den westlich der Cheopspyramide und südlich der Chephrenpyramide gelegenen Friedhof, der zum Westfriedhof von Gîza gehört und Grabanlagen (sogenannte Mastabas) aus der 4.-6. Dynastie, also aus der «Pyramidenzeit» des Alten Reiches...
Peter Lang, 1991. — 47 S. — (Münchener ägyptologische Untersuchungen 2). Im Jahre 1902 erhielt die Universität Leipzig eine Grabungskonzession für den westlich der Cheopspyramide und südlich der Chephrenpyramide gelegenen Friedhof, der zum Westfriedhof von Gîza gehört und Grabanlagen (sogenannte Mastabas) aus der 4.-6. Dynastie, also aus der «Pyramidenzeit» des Alten Reiches...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 100 р. This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas about the past are formed by museum assemblages: how their histories of acquisition...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 237 p. — (BAR International Series 2773). The image of Cleopatra VII Philopator, often a cause of controversy and debate, has long been of particular interest among collectors of classical antiquities and academics. Starting from the controversial identification of the Capitoline Cleopatra and critical reading of the iconographic and literary...
Charles University, 1993. — 276 p. This large-format excavation report describes work at a large mastaba tomb which was used for successive burials between the 7th Century BC and 1st Century AD. There are chapters on the burials in and around the monument, the coffins and funeral equipment, demography, burial rites, the human and accompanying animal bones.
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 281 p. — (BAR International Series 2538). This work examines one section of southern Karnak from the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. Excavations at the site uncovered extensive remains from the late New Kingdom (12th-11th c. BCE), Third Intermediate Period (11th-7th c. BCE), and Late Period occupation of the area (7th-4th c. BCE). The research questions...
Peeters, 2018. — 484 p. — (British Museum publications on Egypt and Sudan 4). This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-third Annual Egyptological Colloquium, held at the British Museum in 2014, augmented by additional papers. The twenty-three contributions investigate functionality, iconography and manufacture of ancient Egyptian coffins from the First Intermediate...
Peeters, 2018. — 485 p. — (British Museum Publications on Egypt and Sudan 4). This volume contains the proceedings of the twenty-third Annual Egyptological Colloquium, held at the British Museum in 2014, augmented by additional papers. The twenty-three contributions investigate functionality, iconography and manufacture of ancient Egyptian coffins from the First Intermediate...
The University of Chicago Press, 2003. — 384 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 118). Medinet Habu in western Thebes (modern Luxor) is among the most important sites in Egypt. It is dominated by the great mortuary temples of King Ramesses III (ca. 1182 BC) and Kings Aye and Horemheb (ca. 1324–1293 BC). It served as the seat of the regional government in the Late New Kingdom...
The University of Chicago Press, 2010. — 382 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 133). This catalog presents the entire corpus of 272 baked clay figurines and votive beds excavated at Medinet Habu in Western Thebes by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago during its 1926-1933 campaign. The figurines represent women, women with children, men, deities, and...
The University of Chicago Press, 1938. — 204 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 31). The mastaba of Mereruka is one of the most noted in an imposing group lying to the north of the pyramid of Teti at Sakkarah. It is reasonable to believe that these tombs commemorate nobles who served in various official capacities under that king. Though they show considerable variation in...
The University of Chicago Press, 1938. — 290 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 39). This volume continues the publication of the great treasury of art and history which has survived to us in the tomb of Mereruka in the ancient Memphite cemetery. The first part is published in OIP 31.
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1975. — 198 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 95). La tombe de l'idénou Hay qui vécut sous le règne de Ramsès III, a été visitée par Lepsius à l'hiver 1844-1845 et "redécouverte" par l'IFAO à l'hiver 1922-1923. L'ouvrage décrit la situation de la tombe creusée dans la falaise...
Sidestone Press, 2021. — 132 p. If you want to understand ancient Egypt, the Nile Delta is of key importance. Excavations and surveys in the Delta keep unearthing new information about how the ancient Egyptians lived, how they envisaged the afterlife and how they interacted with other cultures. The study of finds from the Delta gives us a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 228 p. — (BAR International Series 2931). This book offers an extensive discussion of the several types of deposits (mainly consisting of votive objects like human and animal figures, model boats and shrines, mace heads and jewellery) found in the Early Dynastic temple of Tell Ibrahim Awad, in the Eastern Nile Delta of Egypt. The introduction presents a...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1938. — 74 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 70). Zàouyet el-Mayetîn, appelé aussi Zàouyet el-Amouàt, se t rouve sur la rive droite du Nil à sept kilomètres au sud de Minyé et a quinze au nord de Béni Hassan. En ce point, la chaîne arabique se rapproche du fleuve pour former...
Peeters, 1989. — 484 p. — (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 34). This book examines the Ptolemaic temples of the island of Philae, in Upper Egypt. The temples were modified and extended during the course of the Ptolemaic dynasty and this detailed study presents the first full publication of the architectural development and relief decoration of this site. Separate chapters...
Sidestone Press, 2012. — 295 p. The ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna (or Amarna, ancient Akhetaten) was the short-lived capital built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten, probably the father of the famous Tutankhamun, and abandoned shortly after his death (c. 1336 BCE). It is one of the few Pharaonic cities to have been thoroughly excavated and is a rich source of...
Sidestone Press, 2017. — 224 p. With contributions by Daniel Polz and Ute Rummel This volume describes, illustrates, and analysis the finds from the excavations at Dra‘ Abu el-Naga, an important necropolis on the east bank of the Nile in Luxor (Egypt), which was in use from Middle Kingdom times until the early Christian era. Excavations of the site have been conducted by the...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 252 p. The Ancient Egyptian Footwear Project (AEFP) is a multidisciplinary, ongoing research of footwear in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic through the Ottoman Periods. It consists of the study of actual examples of footwear, augmented by pictorial and textual evidence. This volume evaluates, summarises and discusses the results of the study of...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 366 p The tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor (Egypt) by Howard Carted, yielded over 5000 items. Among the vast number of richly embellished precious objects, such as the solid gold coffin and mask, were also more mundane objects, including the hitherto unpublished basketry objects. Baskets, the ‘plastic bags’ of...
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 338 p. This catalogue presents the ancient Egyptian footwear in the collection of the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The catalogue contains detailed descriptions and measurements, photographs and drawings. Each description of a footwear category is followed by short discussions, addressing topics such as typology and dating. In addition a fairly large corpus...
Charles University, 1976. — 192 p. Ptahshepses was a high official of the 5th Dynasty pharaoh Sahure. His mastaba was first discovered in 1893 but proper investigation was left to a series of Czech expeditions which mapped and excavated the site between 1960 and 1974. This book contains preliminary reports on the 7 expeditions and special studies on: The geodetic documentation...
Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2002. — 204 p. This volume contains the results of excavations at the Djedkare’s family cemetery at Abusir, arranged by individual tomb. Verner and Callender describe the structure and archaeology of the tomb including plans of the rooms, its owner, wall paintings and finds from the tomb. These chapters are succeeded by a discussion of the...
Universita Karlova, 1977. — 292 p. This work is dedicated to the analysis and publication of the reliefs preserved in situ in the area of the mastaba of Ptahshepses. The first part contains the text, the second consists of the drawings of the individual reliefs.
Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2001. — 220 p. The unique pyramid complex of Khentkaus (the ‘mother of two kings’ who lived around 2500 BC) was discovered by the Czech Institute of Egyptology in 1976. This volume provides the final report on the excavation as well as specialist reports on the masons’ marks, the fragments of papyri and reliefs, and the sealings. It also contains...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 325 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 41). The Delta Survey Workshop comprises the proceedings of two conferences organised by the Delta Survey Project and held in Alexandria in 2017 and Mansoura in 2019. The 23 papers contain the results of the latest fieldwork in the Nile Delta and Sinai, from survey work that records and documents unknown and new sites such...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 199 p. — (Archaeopress Egyptology 20). The unique site of Mersa Gawasis was a base for seaborne trade along the Red Sea coast during the Middle Kingdom. The Egyptians’ purpose was to trade with Punt for incense and other exotic materials. There is little evidence of any permanent structures at the site apart from man-made caves in which shipping equipment...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 236 p. — (Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 18). As one of the few surviving artefacts from the late prehistory of north-east Africa, pottery serves as an essential material category by which to explore long-term human development. This book presents a major study on the ceramics recovered from early and mid-Holocene sites in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis, which come...
Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. — 322 p. — (Giza Mastabas 5). The G 6000 section of the Old Kingdom Cemetery at Giza contains over sixty tombs, many of which were excavated by George Reisner in the 1920s and were subsequently re-investigated in the 1970s by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. This publication collates the early investigations at the site with more recent study and...
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2021. — 406 p. — (Pennsylvania University Museum Monographs 155). This volume is the publication and analysis of the tomb of pharaoh Seneb-Kay (ca. 1650-1600 BCE), and a cemetery of associated tombs at Abydos, all attributable to a group of kings of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period. The tomb of Seneb-Kay has...
The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University, 2007. — 461 p. — (Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale-Institute of Fine Arts Expedition to Egypt 8). The ruins of the mortuary complex named Enduring-are-the Places of Khakaure-true-of-voice- in-Abydos are located at South Abydos. Erected for pharaoh Khakaure-Senwosret III (ca. 1878-1841 BC) of Dynasty 12, the Abydos...
Sidestone Press, 2018. — 104 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 17). Ancient Egyptian coffins provided a shell to protect the deceased both magically and physically. They guaranteed an important requirement for eternal life: an intact body. Not everybody could afford richly decorated wooden coffins. As commodities, coffins also pl ayed a...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 168 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 27). Ancient Egyptian elites invested immense cultural and economic efforts in preparing for their afterlives. However, the diversity of choices open to them is often overlooked. These choices included tomb size, tomb location, and architectural design, as well as tomb...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521543743. In The Archaeology of Early Egypt, David Wengrow provides a new interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state (c. 10,000 - 2650 BC). Comparison with neighbouring regions brings the dynamics of prehistoric social development along the Nile into focus, while detailed analysis of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 366 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). In this authoritative survey of the archaeology of early Egypt, David Wengrow offers a new interpretation of the emergence of farming economies and the dynastic state, c.10,000 to 2,650 BC. Exploring key themes such as the nature of state power, kingship and the inception of writing, Wengrow illuminates...
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1979. — 91 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 103.2). Inscrite au catalogue de la nécropole thébaine sous le numéro TT 6, la tombe de Néfer·hotep et de son fils, Neb·néfer, a été étudiée, plusieurs années durant, par Henri Wild. Ce dernier considérait la tombe comme étant «...
Brill, 2016. — 452 p. — (Harvard Egyptological Studies 2). Nefertiti’s Sun Temple publishes stone relief fragments excavated from the site of Kom el-Nana at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, dating to approximately 1350 BCE. This is the first time relief fragments can be associated with a specific wall from a specific temple at Tell el-Amarna. Jacquelyn Williamson reconstructs the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941. — 190 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 13). The large depression in the Libyan Desert which forms the Great or Outer Oasis— Location el Wah el Khargeh —is about 160 kilometers long from north to south and some 25 kilometers wide. Its northern end and its eastern side are sharply defined by high, sheer...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1932. — 301 p. — (Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 6). It is the policy of the Egyptian Expedition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to publish the results of its excavations only when they are complete and when there is a fair assurance that its future excavations will not produce further related material. Such...
Ancient Egypt Research Associates, 2010. — 223 p. This is the first volume in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to pottery made in Egypt today, organised by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more extensive research. For each period, ceramic types are...
Ancient Egypt Research Associates, 2010. — 309 p. This is the third volume in a four-book set covering all Egyptian pottery, ranging from the earliest (Fayum A) ceramics to pottery made in Egypt today, organized by historical periods. The manuals are quick identification guides as well as starting points for more extensive research. For each period, ceramic types are...
Sidestone Press, 2019. — 180 p. — (PALMA: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities 20). The naos AM 107 of the Museum of Antiquities in Leiden was made by order of king Amasis in the 6th century BC, a period that saw an intense production of monolithic shrines. Despite its unimpressive dimensions, the naos of Leiden stands out for its originality. What is...
Caracara Éditions, 2013. — 231 p. Le tombeau de Thoutmosis est un petit tombeau décoré taillé dans la roche à Saqqarah en Égypte qui remonte à l'époque peu après la période Amarnienne (environ 1350–1330 av. J.-C.). La tombe est d'une importance particulière car l'un des propriétaires de la tombe était le sculpteur Thutmose , souvent présumé être la personne qui a réalisé le...
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