Details

• Tomb Owner

  Menkaure

• Excavator

  (Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884

  George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

• Other No

  G III

  Mycerinus Pyramid

  3 of Giza (Perring and Vyse)

• Lepsius No

  Lepsius IX

  L.IX

• PorterMoss Date

  Dynasty 4

Finds3

• 

  Pottery bowl

  • HUMFA_23-7-15b
• 

  Pottery bowls

  • HUMFA_23-7-15a
• 

  Quartzite seated statue of man

  • GEM_44903

Excavation Diary Pages3

• 

  Vol.06.p.007

  • Diary page dates01/03/1913; 01/04/1913; 01/05/1913
• 

  Vol.08.p.081

  • Diary page dates01/03/1915; 01/04/1915
• 

  Vol.29.p.387

  • Diary page dates08/26/1936; 08/27/1936; 08/28/1936

Maps & Plans2

• 

  General plan of Giza

• 

  General plan of the Giza Plateau

Drawings4

• 

  General view from Khafre Pyramid, looking SE towards Menkaure Pyramid

  • IDHUMFA_EG025536
• 

  Menkaure Pyramid Complex: pottery

  • IDHUMFA_EG024582
• 

  Menkaure Pyramid Complex: pottery, bowl

  • IDHUMFA_EG024623
• 

  View of the Giza Pyramids, from the south

  • IDHUMFA_EG025474

Published Documents10

• Cook, R.J. "The Elaboration of the Giza Site-Plan."Discussions in Egyptology 31 (1995), pp. 35-45.

  • Date: 1995
• Cwiek, Andrzej. Relief Decoration in theRoyal Funerary Complexes of the Old Kingdom: Studies in the Development, Scene Content and Iconography. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Warsaw University, 2003.
  

  • Date: 2003
• Dunham, Dows. "Building an Egyptian Pyramid."Archaeology 9, No. 3 (Autumn 1956), pp. 159-165.

  • Date: Autumn 1956
• Lehner, Mark. "Giza. A Contextual Approach to the Pyramids."Archiv für Orientforschung32 (1985), pp. 136-158.

  • Date: 1985
• Lehner, Mark. "The Development of the Giza Necropolis. The Khufu Project."Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 41 (1985), pp. 109-143.

  • Date: 1985
• Love, Serena. "Stones, Ancestors, and Pyramids: Investigating the Pre-pyramid Landscape of Memphis." In Miroslav Bárta, ed.The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology.Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 209-218.

  • Date: 2006
• Petrie, W. M. Flinders.The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. London: Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd., 1990 (1st ed. London: Field and Tuer, 1883).
  

  • Date: 1883
• Reisner, George A. "The Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition."Harvard Alumni Bulletin24, No. 37 (June 22, 1922), pp. 943-949.

  • Date: June 22, 1922
• Unsigned. "Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza" (publication notice).Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 29, No. 176 (December 1931), pp. 119-120.
  

  • Date: December 1931
• Verner, Miroslav. "Archaeological Remarks on the 4th and 5th Dynasty Chronology."Archiv Orientální 69, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 363-418.
  

  • Date: August 2001

Unpublished Documents8

• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 09: Service Equipment of the Chapel: Statues, Offering Basins and Vessels, Page 074

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K01_ChapIX_p074
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 09: Service Equipment of the Chapel: Statues, Offering Basins and Vessels, Page 074 (alternate version)

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K02_ChapIX_p074
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 09: Service Equipment of the Chapel: Statues, Offering Basins and Vessels, Page 080

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K01_ChapIX_p080
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 09: Service Equipment of the Chapel: Statues, Offering Basins and Vessels, Page 080 (alternate version)

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K02_ChapIX_p080
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 10: Burials and Burial Equipment, Page 175

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p175
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 10: Burials and Burial Equipment, Page 175 (alternate version)

  • ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX2_p175
• 

  A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 16: The Royal Family of Dynasty Four, page 115

  • ID: HUMFA_GN3_L01_p115
• 

  The Minor Cemetery at Giza, Unpublished Manuscript, Chapter I: The Minor Cemetery, p.001

  • ID: UPM_GMC_chapterI_001

Full Bibliography

• Becker, Jürgen. "Die Chephren-Pyramide. Planänderung des Baukörpers und ihre Auswirkung auf das Kammersystem." Sokar 8 (1. Halbjahr 2004), pp. 7, 10, 14, note 6.

  Cwiek, Andrzej. Relief Decoration in the Royal Funerary Complexes of the Old Kingdom: Studies in the Development, Scene Content and Iconography. Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Warsaw University, 2003, pp. 105-107.

  Haase, Michael. "Das 'Giza Archiv-Projekt.' Interview mit Peter Der Manuelian." Sokar 10 (2005), p. 11.

  Haase, Michael. "Brennpunkt Giza. Die Schachtsysteme der Cheops-Pyramide." Sokar 5 (2. Halbjahr 2002), p. 11.

  Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 4: 1932-1933. Cairo: Government Press, 1943, pp. 11-13.

  Hawass, Zahi. "The Discovery of the Harbors of Khufu and Khafre at Gîza." In Catherine Berger and Bernard Mathieu, eds. Études sur l'Ancien Empire et la nécropole de Saqqâra dédiées à Jean-Philippe Lauer. Orientalia Monspeliensia IX. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1997, pp. 245, 247.

  Hawass, Zahi. "The Discovery of a Pair-Statue near the Pyramid of Menkaure at Giza." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 53 (1997), pp. 289-290, 292-293.

  Hawass, Zahi. "Zahi Hawass talks to KMT about matters on the Giza Plateau (Interview)." KMT 8, no. 2 (Summer 1997), pp. 21-22, 24.

  Hawass, Zahi. "A Burial with an Unusual Plaster Mask in the Western Cemetery of Khufu's Pyramid." In Renée Friedman and Barbara Adams, eds. The Followers of Horus. Studies dedicated to Michael Allen Hoffman 1944-1990. Egyptian Studies Association Publication No. 2. Oxbow Monograph 20. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1992, pp. 327-328.

  Lehner, Mark. "Giza. A Contextual Approach to the Pyramids." Archiv für Orientforschung 32 (1985), pp. 148, 151, 154-158, note 44.

  Lehner, Mark. "The Development of the Giza Necropolis. The Khufu Project." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 41 (1985), pp. 110, 112, 115, 123, 135, 139, fig. 2.

  Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 141-142, 145-146, note 5, fig. 79.

  el-Naggar, Salah. "Les couvrements de granit dans les pyramides de Giza." In Peter Janosi, ed. Structure and Significance: Thoughts on Ancient Egyptian Architecture, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005, p. 434, fig. 6.

  Newberry, Percy. "Queen Nitocris of the Sixth Dynasty." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 29 (1943), pp. 51-54.

  Petrie, W. M. Flinders. The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. London: Histories & Mysteries of Man Ltd., 1990 (1st ed. London: Field and Tuer, 1883), pp. 36-40.

  Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 26, 33-34.

  Quibell, A.A. The Pyramids of Giza. Cairo: C.M.S. Bookshop, undated, pp. 20-21, 24.

  Rowe, Alan. "Studies in the Archaeology of the Near East II: Some Facts Concerning the Gread Pyramids of el-Gîza and Their Royal Constructors." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 44, No. 1 (September 1961), pp. 103, 108, 110, 117.

  Sakovich, Anthony P. "Explaining the Shafts in Khufu's Pyramid at Giza." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 42 (2005-6), p. 5.

  Saleh, Abdel-Aziz. "Excavations Around Mycerinus Pyramid Complex." Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 30 (1974), pp. 131, 153.
  

3D Models1

• 

  Menkaure Pyramid

Videos4

• Menkaure Pyramid Complex model: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure Pyramid Complex

• Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure Pyramid, Menkaure Pyramid Temple

• Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure Pyramid, Menkaure Pyramid Temple

• Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure Pyramid Complex

People 3

Ancient People

• 

  Menkaure

  • TypeTomb Owner
  • RemarksFifth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khafre. Husband of Khamerernebti II. Builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Mycerinus.

Modern People

• (Karl) Richard Lepsius

  • TypeExcavator
  • Nationality & DatesGerman, 1810–1884
  • RemarksEgyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
• 

  George Andrew Reisner

  • TypeExcavator
  • Nationality & DatesAmerican, 1867–1942
  • RemarksEgyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.