Giza Necropolis

The Giza Archives Project

The Old Kingdom Giza Necropolis (dating from about 2500 BCE) is the site of thousands of tombs, temples, and ancient artifacts. With this Web site the Giza Archives Project staff seeks to provide a comprehensive online resource for scholarly research on Giza.
The present web site contains six basic categories of materials, four of which derive from the original Harvard–MFA Expedition.

- about 22,000 black-and-white excavation photographs taken between 1902 and 1942
- about 3,106 Expedition Diary pages
- about 2,408 Object Register book pages (containing 19,544 individual object records)
- about 10,000 maps and plans, ranging from entire Giza cemeteries to individual burial shafts
- about 200 books and articles on Giza (a digital Library of PDF files)
experiments in Interactive Web technologies, such as zoomable satellite photos and 360-degree panoramic views of the site using Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) and other technologies.