Giza Project Receives Grant from Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship
The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share the news that Professor Peter Manuelian’s project, “Pyramids and Progress: Rescuing and Enhancing the Giza Project Database and Website,” has been selected to receive funding from the spring 2025 cycle of the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship.
The Giza Project is a non-profit international initiative based at Harvard University. Through digital archaeology they assemble, curate, and present archaeological records about one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, the Giza Pyramids and surrounding cemeteries and settlements (primarily 3rd millennium BCE). Researchers from all over the world (Egyptologists, archaeologists, art historians, architects, students, teachers, school groups) make daily use of the website and its thousands media assets (photos, plans, drawings, hieroglyphic inscriptions, tomb walls scenes, dig diaries, publications, manuscripts, 3D models, etc.). In text-based as well as visual ways, users can search for any item, with search results aggregating all the related data. Website users are documented from more than 140 countries.
The Giza Project database and website now face an existential challenge—and an exciting opportunity. With its current web hosting platform closing down, the Giza Project is forced to find and rebuild a new home. This funding will allow for this to happen, ultimately supporting the ongoing existence of the project and its accessibility as a whole.