Open Access Monograph Series: Giza Mastabas Series Online

The Giza Mastabas Series

In 1902 the Egyptian Antiquities Service (now called the Supreme Council of Antiquities) granted permits for scientific excavations at the royal pyramids and private mastaba tombs of Giza. The American team under George A. Reisner (1867–1942), eventually became the Joint Egyptian Expedition of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1905, and continued almost uninterrupted until Reisner's death in 1942. The Expedition formally closed in 1947. Despite the publication of his monumental History of the Giza Necropolis I–II, Reisner was unable to see through the press an additioal 5,000 pages of unpublished manuscript (Giza Necropolis II, III, IV), or begin the tomb-by-tomb publication series he originally envisioned. This task was initiated by William Kelly Simpson in the early 1970s in the form of the Giza Mastabas Series. The goal of the project is to continue and complete the publication of Reisner’s excavations at Giza, fully documenting the mastaba tombs with descriptive text, hieroglyphic translations, facsimile line drawings, plans, sections, and photographs.

Giza Mastabas Vol. 1: The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III
Dows Dunham and William Kelly Simpson

Giza Mastabas Vol. 2: The Mastabas of Qar and Idu<
William Kelly Simpson

Giza Mastabas Vol. 3: The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II
William Kelly Simpson

Giza Mastabas Vol. 4: Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, Part I
William Kelly Simpson

Giza Mastabas Vol. 5: Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000
Kent R. Weeks

Giza Mastabas Vol. 6: A Cemetery of Palace Attendants
Ann Macy Roth

Giza Mastabas Vol. 7: The Senedjemib Complex, Part 1
Edward Brovarski

Giza Mastabas Vol. 8 Part I: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100
Peter Der Manuelian

Giza in Pleiades 

Open Access to the archaeology of Giza