In this expansive new biography of George Reisner, Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian examines the life and work of America's greatest archaeologist. Manuelian presents Reisner's undeniable impact and considers his life within the context of Western colonialism, racism, and nationalism.\nPyramids with hidden burial chambers. Colossal royal statues and minuscule gold jewelry. Decorated tomb chapels, temples, settlements, fortresses, ceramics, furniture, stone vessels, and hieroglyphic inscriptions everywhere. This is the legacy of forty-three years of breathtakingly successful excavations at twenty-three different archaeological sites in Egypt and Sudan (ancient Nubia). George Reisner (1867-1942) discovered all this and more during a remarkable career that revolutionized archaeological method in both the Old World and the New. Leading the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, Reisner put American Egyptology on the world stage. His uniquely American success story unfolded despite British control of Egyptian politics, French control of Egyptian antiquities, and an Egypt yearning for independence, all while his Egyptian teams achieved the fieldwork results and mastered the arts of recording and documentation.\nReisner's lifespan covers the birth of modern archaeology. It also intersects powerfully with aspects of colonialism, racism, and nationalism, as Western powers imposed their influence on Egypt especially during the two World Wars. The wholesale export of dynastic Egypt's treasures to European and American museums also raised issues of repatriation and cultural patrimony long before they became the hot topics they are today. Walking Among Pharaohs, by distinguished Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian, gathers unpublished documents from all over the world to present a fascinating and intimate biography of one of the founding fathers of modern Egyptology and one of America's greatest archaeologists.

Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology

Biographies & Memoirs

Der Manuelian, Peter

Historical

Oxford University Press

Explore 60 wonders of ancient Egypt, described in detail and pictured in ready-to-color illustrations. Crayons, colored pencils, or markers are all one needs to bring ancient Egypt back to life in vivid color.

Ancient Egypt Coloring Book (Start Exploring)

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Running Press

Hieroglyphs from A to Z is the first book published by PomegranateKids™, an imprint of Pomegranate Communications, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Originally published in 1991, this popular best-seller has been out of print for many years. With bold graphics, charming, rhyming text, and solid educational content, it explains the hieroglyphic code while imparting important facts about ancient Egypt. As an added bonus, a separate sheet of stencils is provided, slipped inside the back cover, so that kids can easily draw their own hieroglyphs. All told, this is the perfect book for any small visitor to a museum with Egyptian artifacts, or for any child who simply loves words and pictures.

Hieroglyphs from A to Z: A Rhyming Book With Ancient Egyptian Stencils for Kids (English and Egyptian Edition)

Pomegranate

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 presents an authoritative discussion of the architecture, relief decoration and treasures found within the tombs. The book focuses in particular on the tombs of Neferbauptah, Iymery, Ity and Shepseskafankh and the wonderful wall paintings and inscribed texts from them. Three chapters study the evidence for names, titles, careers and relationships and a further chapter looks at mortuary ceremonies. A superb book at a superb price!

Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000

History

Weeks, Kent R.

Weeks, Kent

Simpson, William Kelly

Ancient Civilizations

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

An ABC book showing the relationships between the English alphabet and Egyptian hieroglyphs

Hieroglyphs from A to Z: Rhyming Book With Ancient Egypt

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

A two-volume Festschrift; 68 articles including expedition reports, art-historical essays, philological treatises and general histories.

Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson

Arts & Photography

Manuelian, Peter Der

History & Criticism

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 of this publication are three of the largest tombs in the complex, located at the northwest corner of the Great Pyramid. Excavations in 1912-13 revealed that the tombs of Mahi and Inti formed part of a great complex of family tombs erected around a paved court, and that four generations of the Senedjemib family served as viziers of Egypt and royal architects over a hundred year period in the later old Kingdom. Voluem one includes a complete history and description of all three tombs. Through the decoration and architecture of these tombs Brovarski traces the increasing trend in the elaboration of family tombs from the end of the fifth dynasty to the end of the sixth. Volume one also contains two lengthy autobiographical inscriptions.

Giza Mastabas VII: The Senedjemib Complex Part I

Simpson, W.K.

Brovarski, Edward

West of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu laid out scores of mastaba tombs for the elite members of ancient Egyptian society. Specific clusters of tombs seem to form architectural and archaeological units, prompting the modern division of the Giza Necropolis into discrete nucleus cemeteries. This book interprets the complete archaeological record of the mastabas of Cemetery G 2100, one of the six nucleus cemeteries at Giza. As a key to understanding Old Kingdom mortuary development at Giza, it explores the distinguishing features of such a grouping of tombs and tomb owners: relative chronology and individual artistic styles; common administrative titles, possible familial connections to the king; and the relationship of the earlier, major mastabas to the subsequent, minor burials surrounding them. More than a century has elapsed since the fourteen major mastabas and about sixty-two smaller subsidiary tombs of Cemetery G 2100 were first excavated by the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition at Giza under George A. Reisner (1867-1842). In addition, the southern edge of Cemetery G 2100 fell within the excavation concession granted to the German/Austrian expedition under Georg Steindorff and then Hermann Junker, on behalf of institutions in Leipzig, Hildesheim, and Vienna. The author has undertaken a re-examination of this cemetery. The results incorporate excavations between 1845 and 1940, and include objects from museums in Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Cairo, Copenhagen, Hildesheim, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, and Vienna. Art-historical treasures, significant artifacts, and unique architectural elements unattested anywhere else at Giza are set in their proper archaeological context, often for the first time. Examples include the Boston reserve head of Nefer (mastaba G 2110); Nefer's chapel reliefs spread today across three continents; one of the best-preserved and oldest female mummies (G 2220); and two complete chapels removed to Europe-Merib in Berlin (G 2100-I), and Kaninisut I in Vienna (G 2155). The chapel of Merib, long known only from C.R. Lepsius's illustrations from the 1840s, is represented in new color photography prepared especially for this volume. The book contains historical and interpretive remarks, followed by individual chapters on the major mastabas. Several detailed 3D computer illustrations reconstruct unique views of the tombs from above and below ground. Part 2 of Giza Mastabas 8 will describe the later, subsidiary structures in Cemetery G 2100. Both volumes enhance the much larger corpus of information available, in undigested form, on the Museum of Fine Arts's Giza Archives Project Web site (www.gizapyramids.org). The work should prove useful to those investigating Old Kingdom history and chronology, mortuary architecture, ceramic and faunal remains, inscriptional material, and art-historical style.

Giza Mastabas VIII: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, Part 1: Major Mastabas G 2100-2220

Fifteen "slab stelae" and stela fragments were found set into the exterior walls of the Giza mastaba tombs from the reign of Khufu and his successors. Taken as a group, they provide one of the most important sources of Egyptian artistic and historical documents of the early Old Kingdom. This publication presents a fresh interpretation of the Giza stelae, with new colour photography, "digital epigraphy" facsimile drawings, new translations, original discovery photographs and recent colour images taken at Giza. The book is published in full colour, with numerous charts and catalogues, gathering information on all Giza tombs with slab stelae emplacements, the history of their excavation, previous scholarly research, and comparative and interpretive chapters. Appendices include both colour and line drawing palaeographies of all hieroglyphs appearing on the stelae, and a collection of the enigmatic "linen lists" that adorn the Giza stelae and many other Archaic and Old Kingdom monuments. Indexes complete the volume.

Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis (Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt)

Yale Egyptological Seminar

"In June of 2005, Leonard Lesko retired after 23 years as Wilbour Professor and Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University. In recognition of his many contributions to the field of Egyptology, 24 colleagues from around the world, and from several fields of ancient studies, contributed articles to a festschrift in his honor. The contributions to the festschrift are as wide-ranging as are Leonard's interests. Contributions discuss ancient Egyptian religion and religious texts, Egyptian grammar, history, art, and archaeology. There are also contributions from the fields of classics, Near Eastern archaeology, and a study of Middle Iranian texts from the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley (where Leonard began his career in Egyptology)." Table of Contents Preface by Stephen E. Thompson 
 List of Contributors
 Barbara S. Lesko, Leonard H. Lesko: A Biographical Sketch
 Bibliography of Leonard H. Lesko (through 2007)
 Mariam F. Ayad, Some Remarks on the Pyramid Texts Inscribed in the Chapel of Amenirdis I at Medinet Habu Guitty Azarpay, The Pahlavi Archive at Berkeley Lanny Bell, The Ancient Egyptian “Books of Breathing,” the Mormon “Book of Abraham,” and the Development of Egyptology in America J.F. Borghouts, Trickster Gods in the Egyptian Pantheon Edward Brovarski, A Second Style in Egyptian Relief of the Old Kingdom Leo Depuydt, The Function of the Particle jh in Old and Middle Egyptian Florence Dunn Friedman, The Menkaure Dyad(s) Fayza Haikal, Cultural Similarities, Kinship Terminology and Ethno-Egyptology Tohfa Handoussa, An Act of Piety from the Western Cemetery at Giza Zahi Hawass, Unique Statues found at Giza VI: Two Unknown Statues found in the Western Field and near the Causeway of Khafre Matthieu Heerma van Voss, Beginning and End in the Book of the Dead of the 21st Dynasty R. Ross Holloway, Was Pausanias Right Concerning Peirithoos in the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia? Ramadan B. Hussein, A New Coffin Text Spell from Naga ed-Dêr Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Common Name: Poppy. Habitat: Nabataean Sculpture. The Petra Great Temple Diana Wolfe Larkin, Making Egyptian Temple Decoration Fit the Available Space Peter Der Manuelian, A “New” Slab Stela for Nefer from G 2110? (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: I) Malcolm Mosher, Jr., Five Versions of Spell 19 from the Late Period Book of the Dead Paul F. O’Rourke and Madeleine E. Cody, A Papyrus Grows in Brooklyn. The Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet in the Brooklyn Museum (P. Brooklyn 35.1448+35.1464) Ali Radwan, The Nun-basin of Renpetneferet Christina Riggs, Gilding the lily: Sceptres and Shrouds in Greco-Roman Egypt Robert K. Ritner, Libyan vs. Nubian as the Ideal Egyptian Alessandro Roccati, A Fragmentary Mummy Bandage inscribed with three Isis Spells in the Book of the Dead David P. Silverman, A Reference to Warfare at Dendereh, Prior to the Unification of Egypt in the Eleventh Dynasty Stephen E. Thompson, From Two Ways to Totenbuch: A Study in Textual Transmission and Transformation

Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University, June 2005

Thompson, Stephen E.

Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University

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