Bibliography
Selected bibliographies of AERA’s work by excavation sites and specializations:
The Heit el-Ghurab Site | The Menkaure Valley Temple | Khentkawes’ Town | Kromer Dump Site
The Great Pyramid and the Great Pyramid Temple | The Great Sphinx of Giza
Area C (Petrie’s Worker’s Barracks) | Avenue of the Sphinxes and Luxor Town Mound | Memphis
Heit el-Ghurab Bibliography
2025. Odler, Martin. “Artifact of the Issue: Object No. 5078 (A Copper Chisel Tip).” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, page 28.
2025. Malleson, Claire. “Did Climate Change End the Old Kingdom? What Ancient Crops Reveal about Climate Change in Pyramid-Age Egypt.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 13-17.
2025. Lehner, Mark and Daphne Sinclaire Myhrvold. “Did Climate Change End the Old Kingdom? The Giza Evidence Says: It’s Complicated.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 7-12.
2024. Hitchens, Sarah and Ali Witsell. “A View of the Back: A Pilot Study of Textile Impressions on Giza’s Clay Sealings.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 24-30.
2024. Witsell, Ali and Søren Sindbæk. “The Data’s in the Details: 3D Micro-Scans of Giza Clay Sealings Show the Promise of Using Technology to Bridge Distance and Time.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 11-17.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “Pyramid Harbors at Giza.” Egyptian Riverine Harbours: Proceedings of the Symposium Held at IFAO, Cairo (15th–18th September 2019). Edited by M. Yoyotte, I. Forstner-Müller, and H. Willems, Bibliothèque d’Étude 188, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale. Pages 367–400.
2024. Redding, Richard. A View from the Herd: Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs in Pharaonic Egypt, A Primer for Egyptologists and Archaeologists. Archaeobiology 5. Bristol, CT: Lockwood Press.
2024. “Field Lab: Old and New.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 10-11.
2024. Old Kingdom Technology (with Dr. Martin Odler),” The History of Egypt Podcast. June 20, 2024.
2024. “Kemet, the Black Land: Agriculture in Ancient Egypt with Professor Claire Malleson,” Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney Podcast, Episode 78. February 26, 2024.
2023. Myhrvold, Daphne, Ben Brazely, and Dan Jones. “An Alabaster Workshop for a Pyramid City.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 2-5.
2023. Malak, Emmy, Samar Ibrahim, and Ali Witsell. “A Special(ist) Story: Stone Craftsmen in Enclosure 1.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 6-10.
2023. Witsell, Ali. “E1 Clay Sealings.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 11-12.
2023. Witsell, Ali. “Sealingspalooza 2023: Surprises from the Backlog.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 13-15.
2023. Almansa-Villatoro, Victoria. “A Very 4th Dynasty House: Two Shepsekaf Sealings from House Unit 3.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 16-19.
2023. Hainline, Brendan H. “Hetepheres, but Probably Not *That* Hetepheres: The First Woman at HeG.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 19-21.
2023. Myhrvold, Daphne. “Something Great.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, pages 22-28.
2023. Lehner, Mark. “President’s Message: A Huge Reveal AERA 2022-2023.” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 3–4.
2023. “Field Work 2022-2023.” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 6–9.
2023. “Field Lab Discoveries, Learning, Insights.” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 12–13.
2023. “Sealingspalooza.” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 14–15.
2023. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2022-2023 Annual Report. Edited by Theo van den Hout. Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, pages 39-47.
2023. Lehner, Mark. “Combinatorial Evolution and Heterogeneous Cohabitation at the Giant Pyramids.” Comparing Urban Heterogeneity, Journal of Urban Studies 8. Edited by R. Raja and S. M. Sindbæk, Turnhout: Brepols. Pages 21–46.
2022. Lehner, Mark. “Sensory Experience and Social Space at Heit el-Ghurab, the Giza Pyramid Builders’ Settlement.” Daily Life in Ancient Egyptian Settlements. SDAIK 47. Edited by J. Sigl, Wiesbaden: Harrossowitz. Pages 131–149.
2022. “Silos 2022: End Game at Heit el-Ghurab?” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 2-5.
2022. “A Tale of Two City Districts.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 6-9.
2022. Redding, Richard. “Showdown at the OK Corral! Testing the Hypothesis.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 10-11.
2022. Odler, Martin, and Jiří Kmošek. “Copper at Giza: Analyses Tell Stories.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 12-17.
2022. Lehner, Mark. “Water from Below, Water from Above.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 28-31.
2022. Witsell, Ali, and David Jeřábek. “Artifact of the Issue: Sealing 2760.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, page 32
2022. “Field Work 2021-2022.” AERA Annual Report 2021–2022, pages 4–5.
2022. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2021-2022 Annual Report. Edited by Theo van den Hout. Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, pages 45-50.
2022. Malak, Emmy, Claire Malleson, and Ali Witsell. Ancient Egypt Research Associates’ Object Typology. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2022. Tallet, Pierre, and Mark Lehner. The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson.
2022. Weiss, Daniel. “Journeys of the Pyramid Builders.” Archaeology July/August.
2021. Witsell, Ali. “Stamp Seals from the Heit el-Ghurab in the Time of Khafre and Menkaure.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, page 36.
2021. “Heit el-Ghurab Ties to Kromer’s Dump.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, page 5.
2021. Lehner, Mark. “Soccer Field Sondages, Palace Promises.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, pages 2–10.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Lake Khufu: On the Waterfront at Giza Modelling Water Transport Infrastructure at Dynasty IV Giza.” In Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces. Edited by Miroslav Bárta and Jiri Janák. Sheffield: Equinox. Pages 191–292.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Merer and the Sphinx.” In Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass vol II. Edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner, and Mohamed Megahed. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts. Pages 895–925.
2019. Lehner, Mark. “Neighborhood to National Network: Pyramid Settlements of Giza. Archaeological.” Papers of the American Anthropological Association vol. 30, issue 1: Excavating Neighborhoods, A Cross Cultural Exploration (Special issue July). Pages 20–38.
2019. Sowada, Karin. “Foreign Trade and Heit el-Ghurab.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 2, pages 22–23.
2019. Odler, Martin and Jiri Kmosek. “Copper at Giza: The Latest News.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 2, pages 11–17.
2019. Sousa, Eleuterio Luther. “Old Bones Viewed with New Methods: Did Giza Butchers Use Copper Knives.” 2019. AERAGRAM vol 20 no 1, pages 22–23.
2019. Hart, Elizabeth. “Freelance Farmers at HeG?” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 1, pages 16–21.
2019. Malleson, Claire. “Feeding the Forces, Providing for the Pyramid Builders.” RAWI, Egypt’s Heritage Review issue 10, pages 24–27.
2019. Everett, David. “Reading Seeds. Giza Botanical Database Spreads Knowledge Worldwide.” Compiled from reports by Claire Malleson. Scribe Magazine, Fall, pages 8–13.
2018. Hitchens, S. A. “Dressing the Pyramids in Cloth and Cordage: Spinning and Weaving at the Pyramids.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 1, pages 12–15.
2018: Malleson, Claire and Rebekah Miracle (Editors). “Giza Botanical Database”. Released: 2018-10-22. Open Context. https://doi.org/10.6078/M7JH3J99
2017. Yahata, Manami. “A Roof Over Their Heads.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 1, pages 8–12.
2017. Malleson, Claire. “The Logistics of Bread Production in Old Kingdom Egypt: A Nutritional Perspective,” In Exploring the Materiality of Food ‘Stuffs’: Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments. Edited by Louise Steel and Katharina Zinn. Oxon and New York: Routledge. Pages 131–151.
2016. “Season 2016: Exploring a High Official’s Office-Residence.” AERAGRAM vol 17 no 1–2, pages 2–7.
2016. Wetterstrom, Wilma. “How Was ES2 Roofed? Modeling in 3D.” AERAGRAM vol 17 no 1-2, p 8–9.
2016. “From the Giza Field Lab: Unique Finds in a High Official’s Office-Residence.” AERAGRAM vol 17 no 1-2, p 10–11.
2016. Lehner, Mark. “The Giza Plateau Mapping Project,” In The 2015–2016 Annual Report. Edited by Gil J. Stein. University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, pages 82–99.
2016. “Research – Food Storage, Food Preparation: Standing Wall Island.” AERA Annual Report 2015–2016, pages 7–8.
2016. Redding, Richard. “The Vertebrate Fauna from the Excavations at Kom el-Hisn, Giza, and Other Sites.” In Kom el-Hisn (Ca. 2500–1900 BC), An Ancient Settlement in the Nile Delta of Egypt. Edited by Robert J. Wenke, Richard W. Redding, and Anthony J. Cagle. Atlanta: Lockwood Press. Pages 139–203.
2016. Lehner, Mark. “The Name and Nature of the Heit el-Ghurab Old Kingdom Site: Worker’s Town, Pyramid Town, and the Port Hypothesis.” In The Pyramids Between Life and Death. Proceedings of the Workshop held at Uppsala University Uppsala, May 31st to June 1st, 2012. Edited by Irmgard Hein, Nils Billing, and Erika Meyer-Dietrich. Uppsala: Uppsala University. Pages 99–160.
2016. Malleson, Claire, and Mary Anne Murray. “Archaeobotany of the Giza Plateau.” In Science in the Study of Ancient Egypt, ed. by S. Zakrzewski, A. Shortland, and J. Rowland, New York and London: Routledge, 2016, pages 104–107.
2015. “The Pedestal Puzzle.” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 2, page 22.
2015. “Another Official’s House Emerges in Season 2015,” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 2, pages 18-21.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “Discovery 2015: House of a High Official.” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 1, pages 2–7.
2015. “The Gallery Complex Gives Up Some of Its Secrets.” 2015. AERAGRAM vol 16 no 1, pages 12–16.
2015. Redding, Richard. “The Pig and the Chicken in the Middle East: Modeling Human Subsistence Behavior in the Archaeological Record Using Historical and Animal Husbandry Data.” Journal of Archaeological Research 23, pages 325–368.
2015. “Research – Excavations: Area Standing Wall Island (SWI), Area AA-South (AA-S) .” AERA Annual Report 2014–2015, pages 5–6.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “The Giza Plateau Mapping Project,” In The 2014–2015 Annual Report. Edited by Gil J. Stein. University of Chicago, Oriental Institute, pages 74–96.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “Labor and the Pyramids. The Heit el-Ghurab ‘Workers Town’ at Giza.” In Labor in the Ancient World. Edited by Piotr Steinkeller and Michael Hudson. Dresden: ISLET-Verlag. Pages 397–522.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context.” In Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age. Harvard Egyptological Studies 1. Edited by Peter der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider. Leiden and Boston: Brill.Pages 227–314.
2015. Kawae, Yukinori. Excavating the Pyramid Town. Tokyo: Shinchosha Publishing Co.
2015. Kamel, Mohsen. The Ground Plan as a Tool for the Identification and Study of Houses in an Old Kingdom Special-Purpose Settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza. PhD dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
2015. Sadarangani, Freya, and Alexandra Witsell (editors). Settlement and Cemetery at Giza: Papers from the 2010 AERA-ARCE Field School. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 15-236.
2014. “Season 2015: Doing Science at Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 10–13.
2014. Nolan, John. “A Change of Address: Funerary Workshop Priests Move to New Quarters.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 29–31.
2014. Witsell, Ali. “A Return to Area AA: Informal Seals and Sealings of the Heit el-Ghurab.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 32–34.
2014. Lehner, Mark. “On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 14–23.
2013. “Dining in a High-Status House:The Good Life, 4th Dynasty Style.” AERA Annual Report 2012–2013, pages 8–9.
2013. Lehner, Mark. “The Heit el-Ghurab Site Reveals a New Face: The Lost Port City of the Pyramids.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 1, pages 2–7.
2013. Malleson, Claire. “Egypt’s Oldest Olive Pit Reconsidered: A Case of Mistaken Identity?” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 1, page 24.
2013. Redding, Richard. “A Tale of Two Sites: Old Kingdom Subsistence Economy and the Infrastructure of Pyramid Construction.” In Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas. Edited by B. de Cupere, V. Linseele, and S. Hamilton-Dyer. Lueven: Peeters. Pages 307–322.
2012. Malleson, Claire. “Egypt’s Oldest Olive Pit at the Lost City of the Pyramid Builders.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, page 24.
2012. Nolan, John. “Fifth Dynasty Renaissance at Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, pages 2–3.
2012. “2012 Field Season Excavations: Gallery III.3.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 14–15.
2012. “Archaeological Science: Hippo Hip and Olive Pit.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 20–21.
2011. “Excavations: the Heit el-Ghurab Site.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 5: Season 2009 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 9-12, 93-145.
2011. “Specialist Reports.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 5: Season 2009 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 147-216.
2011. “Stews, Meat and Marrow: Extracting Protein and Fat for the Lost City.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 2, pages 13–15.
2011. Redding, Richard. “The OK Corral: Standing Wall Mystery, Solved.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, pages 2-5.
2011. “The OK Corral.” AERA Annual Report 2010–2011, pages 14–17.
2011. “Double-Decker Dorm? Reconstructing the Galleries.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 2, pages 7–9.
2011. “On the Cusp of a New Dynasty: Khentkawes and Uskekaf.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 2, pages 10-12.
2011. Wodzinska, Anna, and Mary Ownby. “Tentative Remarks on Levantine Combed Ware from Heit el-Ghurab, Giza.” In Egypt and the Near East – The Crossroads. Edited by Jana Mynárová. Prague:Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University. Pages 285–295.
2011. Wodzinska, Anna. “Potmarks of the Early Dynastic Buto and the Old Kingdom Giza. Their Occurrence and Economic Significance.” In Egypt at its Origin 3. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 205. Edited by R. Friedman and P. N. Fiske. Leuven: Peeters Publishers. Pages 1073–1096.
2011. Tavares, Ana. “Village, Town and Barracks: A Fourth Dynasty Settlement at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza.” In Old Kingdom: New Perspectives, Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750–2150 BC. Edited by N. and H. Strudwick. Oxford: Oxbow.
2011. Tavares, Ana, and Sabine Laemmel.“Some Post-Old Kingdom Pottery from Giza.” In Under The Potter’s Tree, Studies on Ancient Egypt Presented to Janine Bourriau on the Occasion of her 70th Birthday. Lovaniensia Analecta Orientalia 204. Edited by D. Aston, B. Bader, C. Gallorini, P. Nicholson, and S. Buckingham. Leuven: Peeters.
2011. Wodzinska, Anna. “The Ancient Egypt Research Associates Settlement Site at Giza: The Old Kingdom Ceramic Distribution.” In Old Kindgom: New Perspectives, Egyptian Art and Archaeology 2750–2150 BC. Edited by N. and H. Strudwick. Oxford: Oxbow.
2010. Wodzinska, Anna. A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, volume 2: Naqada III–Middle Kingdom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2010. Lehner, Mark. “Villages and the Old Kingdom.” In Egyptian Archaeology. Edited by Willeke Wendrich. Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell. Pages 85–101.
2010. Lehner, Mark, and Ana Tavares. “Walls, Ways and Stratigraphy: Signs of Social Control in an Urban Footprint at Giza.” In Cities and Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: Papers from a Workshop in November 2006 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Edited by Manfred Bietak, Ernst Czerny, and Irene Forstner-Müller. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Pages 171–216.
2009. “The Two Towns: Season 2009 at Giza: Heit el-Ghurab (HeG): The Lost City Site.” AERA Annual Report 2008–2009, pages 4–10.
2009. “Excavations.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 7 – 96.
2009. Lehner, Mark. “Capital Zone Walk-About 2006: Spot Heights on the Third Millennium Landscape.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 97-151.
2009. Dash, Glen. “2006 Geophysical Season at Giza: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kaeml and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 152-157.
2009. “Going to the Dogs: Giza’s First Canine Burials Discovered.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 2, page 14.
2009. “Daily Life of the Pyramid Builders.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 1, pages 8–14.
2009. Lehner, Mark. “Enigma of the Pedestal Building: Hypotheses: Desert refrigerator? Malting Machine? Or both?” In Beyond the Horizon: Studies in Egyptian Art, Archaeology and History in Honour of Barry J. Kemp. Edited by Salima Ikram and Aidan Dodson. Cairo: Publications of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Pages 189–222.
2009. Wodzinska, Anna. “Potmarks from Early Dynastic Buto and Old Kingdom Giza. Their Occurrence and Economic Significance.” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan vol 13, pages 239–261.
2009. Lehner, Mark, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 1: Season 2004. Preliminary Report. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2008. Gerisch, Rainer, Wilma Wetterstrom, and Mary Anne Murray. “Egypt’s Oldest Olive.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 2, pages 3.
2008. Tavares, Ana. “Small Finds, Big Results: Inconspicuous Stones a Key to an Ancient Industry.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 2, pages 4–5.
2008. “Under the Microscope: Life Stories from the Pyramid City Unfold.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 16–19.
2008. Nolan, John, and Amanda Pavlick. “Impressions of the Past: Seals and Sealings from Pottery Mound.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 1, pages 2–4.
2008. Wetterstrom, Wilma, and Ana Tavares. “Lost City Site, Flooded.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 1, pages 5–7.
2008. Wodzinska, Anna “White Carinated Bowls from Giza and Dating of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project Site.” In Chronology and Archaeology of Egypt. The late Fourth and the Third Millennium BC, Proceedings of the Conference Held in Prague (June 11–14 2007). Edited by Hana Vamazalova and Miroslav Bárta, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology. Pages 111-23.
2007. “Enigma of the Pedestals: 2006-2007 Field Season.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 2, pages 1–3.
2007. Redding, Richard. “Treasures from a High Class Dump.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 2, pages 6–7.
2007. Lehner, Mark, Günter Heindl, Ed Johnson, Ashraf Abd al-Aziz, and Ana Tavares. “Giza Plateau Conservation Pilot Study, 2005–2006: Eastern Town House. “ American Research Center in Egypt Bulletin no. 192, pages 16–23.
2007. Lehner, Mark, and Freya Sadarangani. “Beds for Bowabs in a Pyramid City.” In The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt: Essays in Honor of David B. O’Connor, vol II. Annales du Service des Antiquites De L’Égypte No. 36. Edited by Zahi A. Hawass and Janet Richards. Cairo: Conseil Supreme des Antiquités De L’Égypte. Pages 39–81.
2006. Lehner, Mark, and Wilma Wetterstrom (editors). Giza Reports: The Giza Plateau Mapping Project, Volume 1. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2006. Lehner, Mark, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 2: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2006. “Conservation Pilot Project: A Humble Compound Reborn.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 1, pages 8–9.
2006. “Rescue Archaeology: Deep Gouge Offers Clues to a High Wall.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 1, pages 10–12.
2006. “Three Roads Diverged.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 1, pages 14–15.
2004. “Season 2004: A New Neighborhood.” AERAGRAM vol 7 no 2, pages 1–3.
2004. “Behind Mudbrick Walls: Life in an Eastern Town Home.” AERAGRAM vol 7 no 2, pages 6–7.
2004. “The Hidden Industry: Weaving at the Workes’ Settlement.” AERAGRAM vol 7 no 2, pages 10–11.
2004. “Of Gangs and Graffitti: How Ancient Egyptians Organized their Labor Force.” AERAGRAM vol 7 no 1, pages 11–13.
2004. “Life Stories of the Pyramid City Unfold.” AERAGRAM vol 6 no 2, pages 1, 4–5.
2003. “A Non-Excavation Season 2003 Dig: On the Trail of the Lost City.” AERAGRAM vol 6 no 2, page 6.
2002. “The Gift That Worked: The Millenium Project.” AERAGRAM vol 6 no 1, page 1–16.
2001. “Footprint of the State! The City of the Pyramid Buiders.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 1, page 1–2.
2001. “Up Against the Wall: The Wall of the Crow.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 1, page 6–10.
2001. Lehner, Mark. “Great Giza Galleries: Year Two of the Millennium Project.” AERAGRAM vol 4 no 2, pages 1–2, 6–7.
2000. Lehner, Mark. “Absolutism and Reciprocity in Ancient Egypt.” In The Breakout: The Origins of Civilization. Edited by Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky. Cambridge: Harvard University. Pages 69–97.
2000. Lehner, Mark. “Lost city of the Pyramids.” Egypt Revealed, Fall, pages 42–57.
2000. Lehner, Mark. “The First Year of the Millennium Project: Unveiling a Royal Plan.” AERAGRAM vol 4 no 1, pages 1–2, 6–8.
2000. Lehner, Mark. “Interim Report From the Field: A Royal Plan Emerges.” AERAGRAM vol 3 no 2, pages 1, 6–10.
1999. Lehner, Mark. “The Millennium Project: Marathon Excavation to Capture Area A.” AERAGRAM vol 3 no 1, pages 1–3.
1999. Lehner, Mark. “The Older Phase: A Glimpse of the Early Pyramid Age at Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 3 no 1, pages 8–11.
1998. Lehner, Mark. “The Big Leap Forward: What Did We Get?” AERAGRAM vol 2 no 2, pages 1–11.
1998. Lehner, Mark. “1998 Excavations.” AERAGRAM vol 2 no 1, pages 7–9.
1997. Lehner, Mark, and Wilma Wetterstrom. “The 1997 Field Season.” AERAGRAM vol 1 no 2, pages 1–9.
1997. Lehner, Mark. End of Field Season Full Report. PBS Nova Online Adventure.
1997. Lehner, Mark. “Builders of the Pyramids.” Archaeology, January/February, pages 31–35, 37–38.
1997. Lehner, Mark. “Replicating an Ancient Bakery.” Archaeology, January/February, page 36.
1996. “Pyramid Age Bakery Reconstructed.” AERAGRAM vol 1 no 1, pages 6–7.
1996. “The 1995 Field Season.” AERAGRAM vol 1 no 1, page 8.
1992. Lehner, Mark. “Excavations at Giza 1988-1991: The Location and Importance of the Pyramid Settlement.” Oriental Institute News and Notes, pages 1–9.
1990. Chazan, Michael, and Mark Lehner. “An Ancient Analogy: Pot Baked Bread in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.” Paléorient vol 16 no 2, pages 21–35.
Menkaure Valley Temple Bibliography
2025. Lehner, Mark and Daphne Sinclaire Myhrvold. “Did Climate Change End the Old Kingdom? The Giza Evidence Says: It’s Complicated.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 7-12.
2024. Ibrahim, Samar Mahmoud. “Artifact of the Issue: Lithic 577.1—Out of Time, Out of Place?” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, page 40.
2024. Hitchens, Sarah and Ali Witsell. “A View of the Back: A Pilot Study of Textile Impressions on Giza’s Clay Sealings.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 24-30.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures 2023-2024 Annual Report. Edited by Timothy P. Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago. Pages 33-40.
2024. “Field Lab: Old and New.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 10-11.
2024. “Fieldwork 2023-2024: Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT).” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 6-7.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “President’s Message: Foundations from the Past, Building for the Future.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 3-4.
2023. Friedman, Florence Dunn. “Evidence for More Statues of Menkaure.” The Overseer of Works in Memphis and Thebes: Studies in Honour of Nigel Strudwick. Edited by M. Pitkin. Liverpool: Abercromby Press. Pages 45–59.
2023. Almansa-Villatoro, M. Victoria, S. Stubnova Nigrelli, and Mark Lehner (editors). In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt. Studies Presented in Honor of James P. Allen. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
2023. LaPorta, Philip. “From Giza: A Rock Like No Other.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, page 32.
2023. “Field Lab Discoveries, Learning, Insights.” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 12–13.
2022. Friedman, Florence Dunn. “Art and Accounting of the Heb Sed.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 18-26.
2022. “Field Work 2021-2022.” AERA Annual Report 2021–2022, pages 6–7.
2022. “AERA Field Lab.” AERA Annual Report 2021–2022, pages 8–9.
2022. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project,” Oriental Institute 2021-2022 Annual Report. Edited by Theo van den Hout. Chicago: University of Chicago, pages 50-53.
2022. Malak, Emmy, Claire Malleson, and Ali Witsell. Ancient Egypt Research Associates’ Object Typology. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2021. Witsell, Ali. “Lost but Found Again: On Old Kingdom Stamp Seals and the Sealings from AERA’s 2019-2021 Menkaure Valley Temple Excavations.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, pages 29-35.
2021. Jones, Dan. “Menkaure Valley Temple Season 2021.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, pages 20-28.
2020. “Menkaure Valley Temple: Season 2020.” AERAGRAM vol 21 no 1-2, pages 2–9.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2019-2020 Annual Report. Edited by Christopher Woods. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, pages 63–82.
2020. “Menkaure Valley Temple 2020.” AERA Annual Report 2019-2020, pages 5–9.
2019. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project,” Oriental Institute 2018-2019 Annual Report. Edited by Christopher Woods. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, pages 59–75.
2019. “Resurrecting Menkaure’s Statutes.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 2, pages 24.
2019. “Field Season 2019: Return to MVT.” AERA Annual Report 2018-2019, pages 4-7.
2019. Friedman, Florence Dunn. “Broken, Buried—And (Often) Bewildering.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 1, pages 10–15.
2019. “Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 1, pages 2-8.
2019. Lehner, Mark and Rebekah Miracle, “AERA’s 2019 Field Season Report: New Findings from the Menkaure Valley Temple.” AERA website.
2018. “Spring 2019: A Return to the Menkaure Valley Temple.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 2, pages 14-17.
2018: Malleson, Claire and Rebekah Miracle (Editors). “Giza Botanical Database”. Released: 2018-10-22. Open Context. https://doi.org/10.6078/M7JH3J99
2015. Sadarangani, Freya, and Alexandra Witsell (editors). Settlement and Cemetery at Giza: Papers from the 2010 AERA-ARCE Field School. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 237-251.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “Shareholders: The Menkaure Valley Temple Occupation in Context.” Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age. Edited by Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Pages 227–314.
2012. “2012 Field Season Excavations: Menkaure Valley Temple.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 10–11.
2011. “A Hundred and One Years Later: Peering into the Menkaure Valley Temple.” AERA Annual Report 2010–2011, pages 10–13.
2010. Wodzinska, Anna. A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Volume 2: Naqada III–Middle Kingdom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2009. Lehner, Mark. “Capital Zone Walk-About 2006: Spot Heights on the Third Millennium Landscape.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 97-151.
2009. Dash, Glen. “2006 Geophysical Season at Giza: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 152-157.
2006. “Area Clearing and Mapping.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 2: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 11-16.
2002. Lehner, Mark. “A Tale of Two Towns: Menkaure, Khentkawes, and the Lost City of the Pyramids.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 2, pages 6–9.
Khentkawes Town Bibliography
2025. Lehner, Mark and Daphne Sinclaire Myhrvold. “Did Climate Change End the Old Kingdom? The Giza Evidence Says: It’s Complicated.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 7-12.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “Pyramid Harbors at Giza.” Egyptian Riverine Harbours: Proceedings of the Symposium Held at IFAO, Cairo (15th–18th September 2019). Edited by M. Yoyotte, I. Forstner-Müller, and H. Willems. Bibliothèque d’Étude 188, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale. Pages 367–400.
2023. LaPorta, Philip. “From Giza: A Rock Like No Other.” AERAGRAM vol 24 no 1-2, page 32.
2022. Malak, Emmy, Claire Malleson, and Ali Witsell. Ancient Egypt Research Associates’ Object Typology. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2018. “Know to Show: AERA Field School 2018 Begins Preparing an Ancient House for Show Time.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 2, pages 18–23.
2018. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project,” Oriental Institute 2017-2018 Annual Report. Edited by Christopher Woods. Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, pages 87– 98.
2018: Malleson, Claire and Rebekah Miracle (Editors). “Giza Botanical Database”. Released: 2018-10-22. Open Context. https://doi.org/10.6078/M7JH3J99
2016. Malleson, Claire. “The Informal Intercropping of Legumes with Cereals? A Re-Assessment of Clover Abundance in Ancient Egyptian Cereal Processing By-Product Assemblages: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Khentkawes Town, Giza (2300–2100 BC),” Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, vol. 25 (5), pages 431–442.
2015. Lehner, Mark. “The Monument and the Formerly So-called Valley Temple of Khentkawes I: Four Observations.” In 7. Symposium zur Königsideologie/7th Symposium on Egyptian Royal Ideology: Royal versus Divine Authority. Edited by Filip Coppens. Edited by Filip Coppens, Jirí Janák, and Hana Vyzmazalová. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pages 215–274.
2014. “Construction Hub to Cult Center: Re-purposing Old Kingdom Style.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 1–5.
2014. Tavares, Ana. “Prickly Protection: Sailing in a Hedgehog Boat.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, page 36.
2014. “Bread and Beer for Dead Kings: Piety and Politics.” AERA Annual Report 2013–2014, pages 4–7.
2014. “Putting the Pieces Together” (Sealings, ceramics, seeds, bones). AERA Annual Report 2013–2014, pages 8–11.
2014. “Giza’s Back Bay: Marina Del Ray.” AERA Annual Report 2013–2014, pages 12–13.
2014. Tavares, Ana, Daniel Jones, Freya, Sadarangani, Hanan Mahmoud, et al. “Excavations East of the Khentkawes Town in Giza. A Preliminary Site Report.” Bulletin de L’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 114, pages 519–562.
2013. Kawae, Yukinori. “PEAKIT Punches Up 3D Laser Scanning, Adds Accurate Surface Relief.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, pages 2–4.
2013. Malleson, Claire. “An Ancient Egyptian Insect Repellant.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, pages 6–7.
2013. “Silo Building Complex (SBC) 2014: Areas to Dig, Stories to Tell.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, pages 10-11.
2013. Nolan, John. “Piecing the Story Together One Clay Sealing Fragment at a Time.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, pages 12–14.
2013. Nolan, John. “A Small Clay Label, a Bundle of Linen and an Ancient Economic Network.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, page 20.
2013. Malleson, Claire. “Weeds and Seeds: On the Trail of Ancient Egyptian Agriculture.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 1, pages 22–23.
2013. “A Run of Royal Favor: History from Clay Sealings.” AERA Annual Report 2012–2013, pages 6–7.
2013. “A Rare Snapshot of Ancient Fields: Multi-cropped Food, Fodder, and Fuel.” AERA Annual Report 2012–2013, page 10.
2013. Wodzinska, Anna. “Domestic and Votive Pottery from Giza. A View from Heit el-Ghurab Settlement and Khentkawes Town.” Functional Aspects of Egyptian Ceramics in Their Archaeological Context, Proceedings of a Conference Held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, July 24th – July 25th, 2009. Edited by Bettina Bader and Mary F. Ownby. Leuven: Peeters. Pages 165–184.
2012 “Conundrums and Surprises: The Silo Building Complex.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, pages 6-7.
2012. Tavares, Ana, Hanan Mahmoud, and Essam Shahib. “Living on a Slope in the Town of Queen Khentkawes.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, pages 20–23.
2012. “2012 Field Season Excavations: The Silo Building Complex.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 6–9.
2012. “2012 Field Season Excavations: Khentkawes Town North.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 12–13.
2012. Kawae, Yukinori (with Ichiroh Kanaya, Yoshihiro Yasumuro, Sayaka Shigetomi, Akio Yoshikawa, Hiroshige Dan, Masahiko Fuyuki, and Hiroyuki Kamei). “Volume Computation of the Monument of Queen Khentkawes.” Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 2012 18th International Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pages 585-590.
2011. “KKT-E+: The Buried Basin and the Town Beyond.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, pages 10–13.
2011. Murray, Mary Anne. “The Curious Case of the Basin Sediments.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, page 15.
2011. Tavares, Ana. “Bringing an Ancient House Back to Life.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, pages 16–18.
2011. “On the Cusp of a New Dynasty: Khentkawes and Uskekaf.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 2, pages 10-12.
2011. Lehner, Mark. “Ascending Giza on a Monumental Ramp.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 1, pages 8–13.
2011. “The 2011 Field Season Excavations: The Khenktawes Basin and the Town Beyond.” AERA Annual Report 2010–2011, pages 6–11.
2011. Lehner, Mark, Daniel Jones, Lisa Yeomans, Hanan Mahmoud, and Kasia Olchowska. “Re-examining the Khentkaues Town.” In Old Kingdom, New Perspectives. Edited by Nigel and Helen Strudwick. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Pages 157–205.
2011. “Excavations: Khentkawes Town.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 5: Season 2009 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 9-92.
2011. “Specialist Reports.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 5: Season 2009 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 147-216.
2010. Wodzinska, Anna. A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, Volume 2: Naqada III–Middle Kingdom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2009. “Valley Complex for a Queen Who Would Be King.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 2, pages 7–9.
2009. “A House Through Time: Building, Abandonment and Intermingling.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 2, pages 10-13.
2009. “The Two Towns: Season 2009 at Giza: The Khentkawes Town (KKT) and the Menkaure Valley Temple (MVT).” AERA Annual Report 2008–2009, pages 4–19.
2009. Lehner, Mark, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. “Excavations: The Khentkawes Town (KKT).” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 4: Season 2008 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 9-46.
2009. Kaiser, Jessica. “2008 KKT Human Osteology.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 4: Season 2008 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 49-62.
2009. “Excavations: The Khentkawes Town (KKT).” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 7 – 12.
2009. Lehner, Mark. “Capital Zone Walk-About 2006: Spot Heights on the Third Millennium Landscape.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 97-151.
2009. Dash, Glen. “2006 Geophysical Season at Giza: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 152-157.
2009. Kawae, Yukinori. “Giza Laser Scanning Survey 2006.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 166-176.
2008. Tavares, Ana. “Two Royal Towns: Old Digs, New Finds.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 2, pages 8–11.
2008. “Resurrecting the Khentkawes Town: Giza Field Season 2008.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 8–15.
2007. Kawae, Yukinori. “Mapping Khentkawes.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 2, pages 10–12.
2006. “Area Clearing and Mapping.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 2: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel, and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 11-16.
2002. Lehner, Mark. “A Tale of Two Towns: Menkaure, Khentkawes, and The Lost City of the Pyramids.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 2, pages 6–9.
Kromer Dump Site Bibliography
2024. Hitchens, Sarah and Ali Witsell. “A View of the Back: A Pilot Study of Textile Impressions on Giza’s Clay Sealings.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 24-30.
2024. Witsell, Ali and Søren Sindbæk. “The Data’s in the Details: 3D Micro-Scans of Giza Clay Sealings Show the Promise of Using Technology to Bridge Distance and Time.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 11-17.
2021. “Heit el-Ghurab Ties to Kromer’s Dump.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, page 5.
2019. Malleson, Claire. “Am I Ancient? Solving Archaeobotanical Riddles From a 4th Dynasty Municipal Dump.” AERAGRAM vol 20 no 2, pages 18–21.
2018. Lehner, Mark. “Kromer in Context: Biography of an Ancient Dump.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 2, pages 2–13.
2018. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2017-2018 Annual Report. Edited by Christopher Woods. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, pages 87-98.
2018. “Field Season 2018: The Search for Khufu.” AERA Annual Report 2017-2018, pages 4–5.
2018. “The Search for Khufu in the Lab.” AERA Annual Report 2017-2018, page 6.
2018. Witsell, Ali. “Kromer 2018: Basket by Basket.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 1, pages 2–9.
2018. “From the Lab: Mechanics of an Influx.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 1, pages 10–11.
2017. Witsell, Ali. “From Khufu to Kromer: A Jubilee Agenda Thirty Years in the Making.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 2, pages 30–31.
The Great Pyramid Bibliography
2025. Jones, Dan, Sarah Skytte Qvistgaard, and Aurore Ciavatti. “Boat Pits and Builders’ Marks: 3D-Modeling Khufu’s Southern Boat Pits.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 18-25.
2025. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Khufu Boat Pits.” Institute for the of the Study of Ancient Cultures 2024-2025 Annual Report. Edited by Timothy P. Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago, pages 47-52.
2025. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Great Pyramid Builders’ Marks.” Institute for the of the Study of Ancient Cultures 2024-2025 Annual Report. Edited by Timothy P. Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago, pages 45-47.
2024. Sindbæk, Søren and Mark Lehner. “The Laser’s Edge: The Great Pyramid South Floor Survey.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 3-9.
2024. “Field Lab: Old and New.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 10-11.
2024. “Field Work 2023-2024: The Great Pyramid Scanning Project” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 8–9.
2023. Hawass, Zahi, Mark Lehner and Daniel Jones. “A Tour Around the Great Pyramid Temple. The Great Pyramid Temple Project 2020.” Scribe, Spring 2023, Issue 11, pages 52–63.
2023. “Great Pyramid Temple Project – Finished!” AERA Annual Report 2022–2023, pages 10–11.
2022. Tallet, Pierre, and Mark Lehner. The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson.
2022. Friedman, Florence Dunn. “Art and Accounting of the Heb Sed.” AERAGRAM vol 23 no 1-2, pages 18-26.
2021. Lehner, Mark. “Sculpting Bedrock on the Scale of Acres.” AERAGRAM vol 22 no 1-2, pages 11-19.
2021. “Great Pyramid Temple Project 2020.” AERA Annual Report 2020–2021, pages 4–7.
2021. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2020-2021 Annual Report, ed. Theo van den Hou. Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, pages 51–54.
2021. Hawass, Zahi, Mark Lehner, and Daniel Jones. “The Great Pyramid Temple Project.” AERAGRAM vol 21 no 1&2, pages 10–15.
2021. Lehner, Mark. “Khufu’s 30-Year Jubilee: Newly Discovered Pieces of a Puzzle.” AERAGRAM vol 21 no 1&2, pages 16–17.
2020. “Great Pyramid Temple Conservation Project.” American Research Center in Egypt website.
2017. Lehner, Mark and Zahi Hawass. “Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History.”. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2008. Lehner, Mark. “The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries.”. London: Thames & Hudson.
The Great Sphinx of Giza Bibliography
2024. Sperber, Rebecca D., Dean Goodman, Mark Lehner, and Glen Dash. “Where the Water Disappears: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey near the Great Sphinx of Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 19-23.
2024. Hawass, Zahi and Mark Lehner. “The Return to the Sphinx Viewing Project.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, page 18.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Merer and the Sphinx.” In Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass, vol II. Edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner, and Mohamed Megahed. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts. Pages 895–925.
2019. “Return to the Sphinx Viewing Project.” AERA Annual Report 2018–2019, pages. 8–9.
2018. Everett, David. “The Long-Hidden ARCE Sphinx Mapping Project Is Unveiled.” American Research Center in Egypt website.
2018. “Sphinx Mapping Digital Database: Unlocking the Archive of the Great Sphinx.” American Research Center in Egypt website.
2017. Mark Lehner, Megan Flowers, and Rebekah Miracle (Editors). ARCE Sphinx Project 1979-1983 Archive. Released: 2017-11-14. Open Context. https://doi.org/10.6078/M7CZ356B
2017. “Sphinx Archive Project: It’s a Wrap.” AERAGRAM 18-2, pages 25–29.
2017. Mark Lehner. “Who Built the Sphinx? The Sphinx Temple Has the Answer.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 1, pages 2-6.
2002. Lehner, Mark. “Unfinished Business: The Great Sphinx.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 2, pages 10-15.
1994. Hawass, Zahi, and Mark Lehner. “The Passage Under the Sphinx.” Homage à Jean LeClant, vol. 1. Études Pharaoniques. Cairo: Institut Français d’archéologie orientale. Pages 201–216.
1994. Lehner, Mark. “Notes and Photographs on the West-Schoch Sphinx Hypothesis.” KMT Fall, vol 4, no 3, pages 40–48.
1992. Lehner, Mark. “Reconstructing the Sphinx.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal vol 2 no 1, pages 3–26.
1992. Lehner, Mark. “Documentation of the Sphinx.” First International Symposium on the Great Sphinx. Book of Proceedings. Cairo: Egyptian Antiquities Organization Press. Pages 55–107.
1991. Lehner, Mark. “Computer Rebuilds the Ancient Sphinx.” National Geographic vol 179 no 4, pages 32–39.
1980. Lehner, Mark, in collaboration with James P. Allen and K. Lal Gauri. “The ARCE Sphinx Project: A Preliminary Report.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt no. 112, pages 3–33.
Area C (Petrie’s Worker’s Barracks) Bibliography
2001. Conard, Nicholas J., and Mark Lehner. “The 1988/1989 Excavation of Petrie’s Workmen’s Barracks at Giza.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt vol. 38, pages 21–60.
2001. Lehner, Mark. “The Other Galleries: Built for the Living or the Dead?” AERAGRAM vol 4 no 2, pages 8-11.
Avenue of the Sphinxes and Luxor Town Mound Bibliography
2021. Sadarangani, Freya, James S. Taylor, with Ashraf Abd El-Aziz, Mansour Boraik, Rabee Eissa, Ahmed M. El-Laithy, Hanan M. M. Mahmoud, and Essam M. Shihab. “Excavations in the Khalid Ibn El-Waleed Garden, Luxor: Avenue of the Sphinxes.” Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte vol 88, pages 81–144.
2011. “The Luxor Field School 2011.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, pages 6–8.
2010. “Called Back to Luxor: The Salvage Archaeology Field School-2.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 1, pages 2–6.
2010. “2000 Years of Archaeology Begin to Fill a Void.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 1, page 7.
2008. “AERA in Luxor: The Salvage Archaeology Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 5–7.
2008. “Real World Rescue Dig: AERA Fields the SAFS in Luxor.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 1, pages 10–14.
2008. “Digging Old Luxor.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 1, pages 15–18.
Memphis Bibliography
2020. Ohara, Aude Grazer. Treasures from the Lost City of Memphis: Objects from the Museum Sculpture Garden. Boston, AERA.
2017. Sadarangani, Freya. “Conclusion at the Capital: The Memphis Site and Community Development Project.” AERAgram vol 18 no 2, pages 2–9.
2017. “Memphis Site and Community Development.” AERA Annual Report 2016–2017, pages 6–7.
2016. “Memphis Site and Community Development (MSCD) Project Information Packet: Memphis (South), Historic Environment Record (HER).” USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) website.
2016. “Memphis Site and Community Development: The Final Year.” AERAGRAM vol 17 no 1&2, pages 12–16.
2016. “Research: Blazing a New Trail. Memphis Site and Community Development.” AERA Annual Report 2015–2016 page 5.
2015. “Memphis Site and Community Development: Ambitious Plans, Big Challenges.” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 2, pages 2–7.
2014. “Return to Memphis: MRFS 2014.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 6–9.
2012. “2011–2012 Archaeological Field Schools: Mit Rahina Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012 pages 16–18.
2012. “Memphis, A City Unseen.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 1, pages 2–7.
2011. “New Cycle, New Site: The Mit Rahina Field School.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 2, pages 18–19.
Giza Plateau Archaeological Survey Bibliography
2025. Jones, Dan, Sarah Skytte Qvistgaard, and Aurore Ciavatti. “Boat Pits and Builders’ Marks: 3D-Modeling Khufu’s Southern Boat Pits.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 18-25.
2025. Sindbæk, Søren and Sarah Skytte Qvistgaard. “Beamoin in on Khafre: The First Laser Survey of the Second Great Pyramid.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 3-6.
2024. Sperber, Rebecca D., Dean Goodman, Mark Lehner, and Glen Dash. “Where the Water Disappears: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey near the Great Sphinx of Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 19-23.
2024. Hawass, Zahi and Mark Lehner. “The Return to the Sphinx Viewing Project.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, page 18.
2024. Sindbæk, Søren and Mark Lehner. “The Laser’s Edge: The Great Pyramid South Floor Survey.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 3-9.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project.” Oriental Institute 2023-2024 Annual Report. Edited by Timothy P. Harrison. Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, pages 33-40.
2024. “Fieldwork 2023-2024: The Great Pyramid Scanning Project.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 8-9.
2024. Lehner, Mark. “President’s Message: Foundations from the Past, Building for the Future.” AERA Annual Report 2023–2024, pages 3-4.
2022. Tallet, Pierre, and Mark Lehner. The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson.
2022. Weiss, Daniel. “Journeys of the Pyramid Builders.” Archaeology July/August.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Lake Khufu: On the Waterfront at Giza Modelling Water Transport Infrastructure at Dynasty IV Giza.” In Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces. Edited by Miroslav Bárta and Jiri Janák. Sheffield: Equinox. Pages 191–292.
2020. Lehner, Mark. “Merer and the Sphinx.” In Guardian of Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Zahi Hawass, vol II. Edited by Janice Kamrin, Miroslav Bárta, Salima Ikram, Mark Lehner, and Mohamed Megahed. Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts. Pages 895–925.
2018. Dash, Glen. “Where in the World is the Great Pyramid.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 1, pages 16–20.
2018. Barna, Mark. “Everything Worth Knowing About the Giza Pyramids.” Discover Magazine.
2017. Lehner, Mark, and Zahi Hawass. Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2017. Lehner, Mark. “David Goodman: Back to the Point of Beginning.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 2, pages 19-24.
2017. Mutter, George L., Fishman, Bernard P. “Kafr, Village of the Pyramid Sheikhs at Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 2, pages 10-15.
2017. Dash, Glen. “Occam’s Egyptian Razor: The Equinox and the Alignment of the Pyramids,” Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture vol 2, pages 1-8.
2017. Dash, Glen. “Finding Those Indelible Marks Flinders Petrie Left on the Giza Plateau.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 1, pages 14-17.
2017. “How Egyptians Quarried Their Building Blocks.” AERAGRAM vol 18 no 1, page 7.
2017. Finucane, Martin. “Did the Egyptians create a canal and a port to bring stone to the Great Pyramid?” The Boston Globe.
2017. “New Light on Giza, How the Pyramids built Egypt.” Current World Archaeology vol 86.
2017. Mark Lehner, Megan Flowers, and Rebekah Miracle (Editors). ARCE Sphinx Project 1979-1983 Archive. Released: 2017-11-14. Open Context. https://doi.org/10.6078/M7CZ356B
2016. Dash, Glen, and Joel Paulson. “The 2015 Survey of the Base of the Great Pyramid.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology vol. 102, pages 186–195.
2016. Dash, Glen, and Mark Lehner. “Scanning by Eye and Experience: In Search of the Human Hand That Built the Great Pyramid,” AERAGRAM vol 17 no 1 & 2, pages 20–23.
2015. Dash, Glen. “The Great Pyramid’s Footprint: Results from Our 2015 Survey.” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 2, pages 8–14.
2015. Dash, Glen. “What Was the Original Size of the Great Pyramid’s Footprint?” AERAGRAM vol 16 no 1, pages 8–11.
2015. “Glen Dash Foundation Great Pyramid Survey.” AERA Annual Report 2014–2015, page 7.
2015. Still, Alexander. “The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids.” Smithsonian Magazine.
2015. Zorich, Zach. “How Egypt’s Great Pyramid Changed Civilization.” Scientific American.
2014. Lehner, Mark. “On the Waterfront: Canals and Harbors in the Time of Giza Pyramid-Building.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 14–23.
2014. Dash, Glen. “Did Egyptians Use the Sun to Align the Pyramids?” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 24–28.
2013. Kawae, Yukinori. “PEAKIT Punches Up 3D Laser Scanning, Adds Accurate Surface Relief.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 2, pages 2–4.
2013. Dash, Glen. “How the Pyramid Builders May Have Found Their True North.” AERAGRAM vol 14 no 1, pages 8–14.
2012. Dash, Glen. “New Angles on the Great Pyramid.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, pages 10–19.
2012. “Glen Dash Foundation Survey: Data for the Fist Accurate Archaeological Map of the Giza Plateau.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 22–24.
2012. Dash, Glen. “North by Northwest: The Strange Case of Giza’s Misalignments.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 1, pages 10–15.
2012. “GPMP Full Circle,” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 1, pages 16–19.
2011. Tavares, Ana. “Coordinate Systems and Archaeological Grids Used at Giza.” In Giza Reports, Vol 1. Edited by Mark Lehner and Wilma Wetterstrom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 203–216.
2011. Miracle, Rebekah. “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed in Map View: GIS Brings It All Together.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 2, pages 10–12.
2011. Dash, Glen. “Solar Alignments at Giza.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 2, pages 3–9.
2009. Kawae, Yukinori, Kosuke Sato, Hiroyuki Kamel, Tomoaki Nakano, and Ichiroh Kanaya. “Saqqara Laser Scanning Survey 2008.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 4: Season 2008 Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates, pages 63-71.
2009. Lehner, Mark. “Capital Zone Walk-About 2006: Spot Heights on the Third Millennium Landscape.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 97-151.
2009. Dash, Glen. “2006 Geophysical Season at Giza: A Ground-Penetrating Radar Study.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 152-157.
2009. Bunbury, Judith, Catherine (Katy) Lutley, and Angus Graham. “Giza Geomorphological Report.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kaeml and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 158-165.
2009. Kawae, Yukinori. “Giza Laser Scanning Survey 2006.” In Giza Occasional Papers, Vol 3: Seasons 2006-2007. Preliminary Report. Edited by Mark Lehner, Mohsen Kamel and Ana Tavares. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates. Pages 166-176.
2008. Lehner, Mark. The Complete Pyramids. London: Thames & Hudson.
2008. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Overviews and Ground Truths.” AERAGRAM vol 9 no 2, pages 14–15.
2008. “Saqqara Laser Scanning Survey 2008.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 22–25.
2008. “Geographical Information System.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 5–7.
2007. Kawae, Yukinori. “Mapping Khentkawes.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 2, pages 10–12.
2007. Goodman, David. “The GPMP Survey and Mapping Control Datum.” In Giza Reports, Vol 1. Edited by Mark Lehner and Wilma Wetterstrom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates, pages 98–101.
2007. Goodman, David, and Mark Lehner. “The Survey: The Beginning.” In Giza Reports, Vol 1. Edited by Mark Lehner and Wilma Wetterstrom. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates, pages 53–95.
2004. Dash, Glen. “Seeing Beneath the Surface.” AERAGRAM vol 7 no 1, pages 1, 6–10.
2002. “Giza As Is: Unfinished Business Reveals the Human Hand.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 2, page 1.
2002. Lehner, Mark. “The Fabric of a Pyramid: Ground Truth.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 2, pages 4–5.
2001. Butzer, Karl W. “When the Desert Was in Flood: Environmental History of the Giza Plateau.” AERAGRAM vol 5 no 1, pages 3-5.
2001. Bonani, George, Hebert Haas, Zahi Hawass, Mark Lehner, Shawki Nakhlas, John Nolan, Robert Wenke, Willy Wolfi. “Radiocarbon Dates of Old and Middle Kingdom Monuments in Egypt.” Near East Chronology: Archaeology and Environment. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference. Edited by Hendrik J Bruins, I Cami, and E. Boaretto. Radiocarbon, vol 43, no. 3. Pages 1297–1320.
2000. Dash, Glen. “Giza Ground Truth: Magnetic Anomaly Surveying.” AERAGRAM vol 4 no 1, pages 9-11.
2000. Lehner, Mark. “Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation.” In Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes. Edited by Timothy A. Kohler and George J Gumerman. Santa Fe Institute: Studies in the Sciences of Complexity. New York: Oxford University Press. Pages 275–353.
2006. “The Pyramids Radiocarbon Dating Project.” AERAGRAM vol 1 no 1, pages 10–11.
1999. Nakhla, S, Zahi Hawass, Willy Wolfi, Herbert Haas, Mark Lehner, Robert Wenke, Wilma Wetterstrom, and Geörg Bonani. “Dating the Pyramids.” Archaeology Sep/Oct, vol. 52, Issue 5, pages 26–33.
1999. Lehner, Mark. “Construction of Pyramids (Old Kingdom).” In Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. Edit by Kathryn A. Bard. London and New york: Routledge. Pages 639–646.
1998. Lehner, Mark. “Niches, Slots, Grooves and Stains: Internal Frameworks in the Khufu Pyramid?” Stationen: Beitrage zur Kulturgeschichte Agyptens Rainer Stadelmann gewidmet. Edited by Heike Guksch und DanieJ Polz. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. Pages 101–113.
1997. Lehner, Mark. End of Field Season Full Report. PBS Nova Online Adventure.
1996. Lehner, Mark. “The Pyramid.” Secrets of Lost Empires, by Michael Barnes, Robin Brightwell, Adriana von Hagan, Mark Lehner, and Cynthia Page. London: BBC Books. Pages 47–93.
1996. Lehner, Mark, and David Goodman. “New Mapping of Ancient Egypt.” POB February, vol. 21, no 3, pages 16–24.
1987. Haas, Herbert, James Devine, Robert Wenke, Mark Lehner, Willy Wolfli, and Geörg Bonani. “Radiocarbon Chronology and the Historical Calendar in Egypt.” BAR International Series, vol.379 (II), pages 585–606.
1986. Lehner, Mark, and David Goodman. “Unraveling the Mystery of Pyramid Construction.” POB April–May, vol 11, no 4, pages 12–19.
1986. Lehner, Mark. “The Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Season 1986.” Newsletter of the American Research Center in Egypt, no. 135, pages 29–48.
1985. Lehner, Mark. “The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The Khufu Project.” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo, vol 41, pages 109–143.
1985. Lehner, Mark. “Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Season 1984–85.” American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, no 131, Fall, pages 23–56.
1985. Lehner, Mark. “Giza: A Contextual Approach to the Pyramids.” Archive für Orientforschung vol 32, pages 136–158.
1985. Lehner, Mark. “The Pyramid Tomb of Hetep-Heres and the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu.” Deutsches Archaologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo 19. Mainz: P Von Zabern.
1983. Lehner, Mark. “Some Observations on the Layout of the Khufu and Khafre Pyramids.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt vol. 20, pages 7–25.
The AERA Field Schools
2025. Malleson, Claire. “Giza Faunal Archival Project.” AERAGRAM vol 26 no 1-2, pages 26-27.
2024. “Richard’s Boxed Menagerie: Teaching Students with Hands-On Learning.” AERAGRAM vol 25 no 1-2, pages 38-39.
2018. “Field Schools Are Changing the Face of Egyptology, and AERA and Its Graduates Are Helping to Lead the Way.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 2, page 28.
2018. “Know to Show: AERA Field School 2018 Begins Preparing an Ancient House for Show Time.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 2, pages 18–23.
2018. “AERA Field School 2018.” AERA Annual Report 2017–2018, page 7.
2018. “Hussein Ahmed, Mohamed, and Mohamed Raouf Badran. Learning Animal Bone: AERA-ARCE Field School Training.” AERAGRAM vol 19 no 1, pages 22–27.
2015–2016. Lehner, Mark. “Supporting Egypt’s Archaeologists: Field Training in the Heit el-Ghurab Settlement of the Giza Pyramids.” The American Research Center in Egypt Bulletin no. 207, pages 1, 3–19.
2015. Sadarangani, Freya, and Alexandra Witsell (editors). Settlement and Cemetery at Giza: Papers from the 2010 AERA-ARCE Field School. Boston: Ancient Egypt Research Associates.
2015. “Training Two Sites, Two Field Schools: Analysis and Publication and Beginners.” AERA Annual Report 2014–2015, page 4.
2014. “Return to Memphis: MRFS 2014.” AERAGRAM vol 15 no 1 & 2, pages 6–9.
2014. “Catching Up with Our Field School Alums.” AERA Annual Report 2013–2014, page 17.
2013. “Completing Their First Book Of Research Papers: AERA Analysis And Publication Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2012–2013, page 5.
2012. “AERA Field School Grads Take the Lead.” AERAGRAM vol 13 no 2, pages 8–9.
2012. “2011–2012 Archaeological Field Schools: Mit Rahina Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, pages 16–18.
2012. “2011–2012 Archaeological Field Schools: Taking Charge. On-the-Job Training.” AERA Annual Report 2011–2012, page 19.
2011. “New Cycle, New Site: The Mit Rahina Field School.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 2, pages 18–19.
2011. “The Luxor Field School 2011.” AERAGRAM vol 12 no 1, pages 6–8.
2011. “The Luxor Study Field School 2011.” AERA Annual Report 2010–2011, pages 20–23.
2010. “Called Back to Luxor: The Salvage Archaeology Field School-2.” AERAGRAM vol 11 no 1, pages 2–6.
2009. “The 2009 Advanced Field School: How Far We’ve Come.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 2, pages 2–3.
2009. “Fun, Fellowship, and Fabrics: Teaching Ceramics in the AERA-ARCE AFS.” AERAGRAM vol 10 no 2, pages 4–6.
2009. “Grad School” at Giza: The 2009 Advanced Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2008–2009, pages 20–23.
2008. “AERA in Luxor: The Salvage Archaeology Field School.” AERA Annual Report 2007–2008, pages 5–7.
2007. “The Future of Egypt’s Past: The 2006 AERA/ARCE Advanced Field School.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 2, page 9.
2006. “The Class of 2005: From All of Egypt.” AERAGRAM vol 8 no 1, pages 1–3.