Publication of three major mastabas of the Old Kingdom in the Giza Eastern Cemetery, more than fifty years since they were excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.
William Kelly Simpson was an American professor of Egyptology, Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian literature, and Afro-Asiatic languages at Yale University. He was one of several co-directors of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Yale University Expedition to Abydos, Egypt, which conducts archaeological excavations of ancient sites.