Name of Object:

Excavation in Giza

Location:

Vienna, Austria

Holding Institution:

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Egyptian Collection

 About Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Date of Object:

1912–1929

Description:

Hermann Junker with Egyptian workers excavating a statue from the mastaba of Schepsesptah in 1913. The German-born Egyptologist Hermann Junker became a professor at the University of Vienna in 1909. In 1911 the Austrian Academy obtained the concession for excavation in Giza. In 1912 Hermann Junker's team started to excavate tombs close to the pyramids of Giza.

Type of Object

Photograph

Citation of this web page:

"Excavation in Giza" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2026.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;at;33;en

Copyedited by: Daniel de la VegaDaniel de la Vega

Daniel de la Vega is a copy editor based in Portland, Oregon. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in linguistics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2014 and has since done editing and localization work on everything from college applications to magazines to video game dialogue.

MWNF Working Number: AT 034