ESSENTIAL READING & RESOURCES
Peter Der Manuelian, “The ‘Lost’ Arabic Excavation Diaries of the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 58 (2022), 129–62.
Wendy Doyon, “Quftis: Archaeological Technicians, Reis-ship, and the History of Wage Labor in Egyptian Archaeology.” In S. D’Auria and P. Lacovara (eds), Methods and Aims in Egyptian Archaeology: A Sourcebook. Columbus, GA: Lockwood Press, in press 2023.
Marleen De Meyer, “La campagne de George Andrew Reisner.” In M. De Meyer and K. Cortebeeck (eds), Djehoetihotep. 100 jaar opgravingen in Egypte / Djehoutihotep, 101–28. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2015.
Liesbeth Zack, “Excerpt from Yusuf al-Magribi’s Daf’ al-Isr ‘an Kalam Ahl Misr (1606).” In E.M. Wagner (ed.), A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic, 209-225. Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 9. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2021.
Liesbeth Zack, “Historical Arabic Dialectology: Interpreting the Sources.” In W. Arnold and M. Klimiuk, Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research, 207-237. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
Fatma Keshk & Ashraquet Bastawrous. The Archaeological Workers of Saqqara. Egyptian Archaeology 62 (2023): 14–17.
Maximilian Georg, “Egyptian Workers in German-led Excavations in Egypt, 1898–1914.” In A. Bednarski, A. Dodson and S. Ikram (eds), A History of World Egyptology, 244–252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Selections from Hana Navratilova, Thomas L. Gertzen, Marleen De Meyer, Aidan Dodson, and Andrew Bednarski, eds., Addressing Diversity: Inclusive Histories of Egyptology, Münster: Zaphon, in press 2023:
Ladislav Bareš, “Sixty years of the el-Kereti family at Abusir.”
Wendy Doyon, “Xia Nai’s Egypt in the Archaeology of China: Field Workers and Field Methods in Xia Nai’s Diary at Armant, Egypt, 1938.”
Mostafa I. Tolba, “On the Trail of Ahmed Fakhry: The Legacy of an Egyptian Archaeologist.”
Marleen De Meyer, Wouter Claes, Noha M.A. Mahran, Athena Van der Perre, Aude Grâzer Ohara, “Working with Capart: Quftis and local workmen during the Elkab excavation seasons, 1937–1946.”
Felix Relats Montserrat, “Les ouvriers de Médamoud: Le fonctionnement d’un chantier français en Égypte au début du 20e siècle.”
Nora Shalaby, Ayman Damarany & Jessica Kaiser, “A Nazir and an Effendi: Glimpses from the Abydos Paper Archive.”
Selected translations from Deir el-Bersha, Gebel Barkal, Giza, and Abu Geili mss.
ONLINE RESOURCES AND EXHIBITIONS
The Giza Project at Harvard University: http://giza.fas.harvard.edu
‘Unsilencing the Archives: The Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926–1935)’: Virtual exhibition at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2021: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/dc601d4d131145f88f828196860b8a44
‘Excavating Archives: Narratives from 20th-Century Palmyra’: Virtual exhibition at Aarhus University, Denmark, 2022: https://projects.au.dk/archivearcheology/cultural-heritage-resources/virtual-exhibition-excavating-archives-narratives-from-20th-century-palmyra/excavating-archives-narratives-from-20th-century-palmyra
‘El Reis’: Exhibition curated by Wesam Mohamed about the Egyptian workmen, organised at Misr Public Library in Luxor from 21–27 January 2021.
FURTHER READING
Eric Cline, “Invisible Excavators: The Quftis of Megiddo, 1925-1939.” Palestine Exploration Quarterly (online), 2022.
Wendy Doyon, Empire of Dust: Egyptian Archaeology and Archaeological Labor in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2021.
Wendy Doyon, “The History of Archaeology through the Eyes of Egyptians.” In Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology, edited by Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai, 173–200. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2018.
Wendy Doyon, “On Archaeological Labor in Modern Egypt.” In Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures, edited by William Carruthers, 141–56. London: Routledge, 2015.
Liesbeth Zack and Arie Schippers (eds), Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic: Diachrony and Synchrony. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Maximilian Georg, Deutsche Archäologen und ägyptische Arbeiter. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2023.
Allison Mickel, Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor. Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021.
Peter Der Manuelian, Walking among Pharaohs. George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology. Oxford University Press (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023).
Peter Der Manuelian, Digital Giza. Visualizing the Pyramids (Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2017).
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Giza-Visualizing-Pyramids-metaLABprojects/dp/0674731239
Joanne Rowland, “Documenting the Qufti Archaeological Workforce.” Egyptian Archaeology 44 (2014): 10–12.
Stephen Quirke, Hidden Hands. Egyptian Workforces in Petrie excavation archives, 1880–1924. London: Duckworth, 2010.
