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- Campagne de 1900-1901 (A. Barsanti) ASAE 2, 1901, 249-57
- Fouilles atour de la Pyramide d' Ounas (A. Barsanti) ASAE 3, 1902, 182-4
- Notes Sur les Objects recueillis sous la Pyramide d' Ounas (G.Maspero) ASAE 3, 1902, 185-90
- Sur quelques documents de l'époque Thinite découverts à Sakkarah (G. Maspero) BIE 3, 1902, 107-116
- Excavations at Saqqara, 1910-1911 (J.E. Quibell) EEF Archaeological Report 1910-1911, 1911, 22-24
- Inscriptions from the Step Pyramid Site ... An inscribed statue of Zoser (B. Gunn) ASAE 26, 1926, 177-96
- Excavations of the ... at Saqqara 1925-26 (C.M. Firth) ASAE 26, 1926, 101
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Saqqara (1925-1926) ASAE 26, 1926, 97-101
- Excavations of the Service des Antiquites at Saqqara 1926-27 (C.M. Firth) ASAE 27, 1927, 105-111
- Etudes sur quelques monuments de la IIIe dynastie (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 27, 1927, 112-33
- Excavations of the ... at Saqqara 1927-28 (C.M. Firth) ASAE 28, 1928, 82-3 + plate 3 (Step Pyr. Complex)
- Inscriptions from the Step Pyramid Site III. Fragments of inscribed vessels (B. Gunn) ASAE 28, 1928, 153-74
- Etudes sur quelques monuments de la IIIe dynastie (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 28, 1928, 89-113
- Etudes sur quelques monuments de la IIIe dynastie (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 29, 1929, 97-129
- Excavations of the Department of Antiquities at Saqqara 1930-31 (C.M. Firth) ASAE 31, 1931, 45-8
- Etudes sur quelques monuments de la IIIe dynastie (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 31, 1931, 49-64
- Fouilles du Service des Antiquites à Saqqarah (Nord) (J.P.Lauer) ASAE 33, 1933, 155-66
- Notes sur Divers travaux ... (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 33, 1933, 153-4
- Rapport sur les Restaurations ...1931-33... Djoser à Saqqara (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 33, 1933, 146-52
- Fouilles du Service des Antiquites à Saqqarah (Nord) (J.P.Lauer) ASAE 34, 1934, 54-69
- Stone Vessels from the Step Pyramid (J.E.Quibell) ASAE 34, 1934, 70-5
- Inscriptions from the Step Pyramid Site IV. The funerary Chamber (Gunn) ASAE 35, 1935, 62-65
- Fouilles ... a Saqqara (secteur nord) 1934-5 (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 35, 1935, 66-75 (11 Gallerie est)
- Stone Vessels from the Step Pyramid (J.E.Quibell) ASAE 35, 1935, 76-80
- Decouverte a Saqqarah d' une Partie de la momie du Roi Zoser (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 35, 1935, 25-7
- Report on Human remains from the granite sarcophagus chamber Pyramid of Zoser (D.E. Derry) ASAE 35, 28-30
- Fouilles ... a Saqqara 1935-36 (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 36, 1936, 20-28 (11 Gallerie est - pt.2)
- Vases en Pierre Dure trouves sous la Pyramide a Degres (R. Macramallah) ASAE 36, 1936, 29-32
- Note sur divers travaux effectués à Saqqarah en 1936 et 1937 (J.P. Lauer) ASAE 37, 1937, 103-15
- Recent Discoveries at Sakkarah (W.B. Emery) JEA 24, 1938, 243 (Ankhka, Nebitka, Sabu)
- Saqqara. Fouilles du Service des Antiquites 1937-38 CdE 26, 1938, 278-86
- Excavations at Saqqara 1937-38 (S.Bey Hassan) ASAE 38, 1938, 503-21 (Unas, Ninetjer)
- Fouilles à Saqqarah 1937-1938. IV. Le cimetière souterrain de la deuxième dynastie (N.N.) Archiv für Ägyptische Archäologie 1, 1938, 182-183
- Saqqarah. Fouilles du Service des Antiquités 1937-1938. IV. Le cimetière souterrain de la IIe dynastie (N.N.) CdE 13, 1938, 283
- Saqqarah-Nord. Fouilles du Service des Antiquités 1937-1938 (N.N.) CdE 13, 1938, 283-286
- A Preliminary Report on the Architecture of the Tomb of Nebetka (W.B. Emery) ASAE 38, 1938, 455-9
- Saqqarah-Nord. Fouilles du Service des Antiquités (N.N.) CdE 14, 1939, 79-80, 263-265
- Fouilles des Antiquites a Saqqara- Sec. de la Pyramide a Degrés (Lauer) ASAE 39, 1939, 447-56
- Le Steles de Djoser (G. Jequier) CdE 27, 1939, 29-35
- Saqqara Nord. Fouilles du Service des Antiquites (Serv. Antiq.) CdE 27, 1939, 263-65 (S3471, Djer's r.; IInd dyn. Funerary Repast tomb)
- A preliminary report on the First Dynasty copper treasure from North Saqqara (Emery) ASAE 39, 427-37
- W.B.Emery 'The Tomb of Hemaka' (review by R. Weill) RdE 4, 1940, 137-48
- Preliminary Report on the Royal Excavations at Saqqara (1941-2) (Z.Saad) ASAE 41, 381-93
- W.B. Emery 'Hor AHA' 1939 (review by R. Weill) RdE 5, 1946, 189-92
- J.P. Lauer ' La Pyramide à degrés III ' 1939 (review by R. Weill) RdE 5, 1946, 192-6
- Notes sur les monuments de la Pyramide à degrés de Saqqara (R. Weill) RdE 3, 1946, 115-27
- 'Hor Aha' - W.B. Emery 1939 (review by R.O. Faulkner) JEA 33, 1947, 103-4
- Some Early Dynastic Contributions to Egyptian Architecture (I.E.S. Edwards) JEA 35, 1949, 123-8
- Les travaux du Service des Antiquites a Saqqara (1953/54) (J.P. Lauer) BSFE 18, Jul. 1955, 27-39
- A Propos de la Nouvelle Pyramide a Degres de Saqqara (J.P. Lauer) BIE 36.2, 1955, 357-64
- Sur le Dualisme de la Monarchie Eg. et son Expression Archit. sous les I° Dyn.(Lauer) BIFAO 55,1955, 153-71
- The Discovery of a New Pyramid Enclosure of the Third Dynasty at Saqqara (Goneim) BIE 36.2, 1955, 559-81
- Royal Tombs at Saqqara (W.B. Emery) Archaeology 8, 1955, 2-9
- Evolution de la tombe royale egyptienne jusqu'à la Pyramide à degrés (J.P.Lauer) MDAIK 15,1957, 148-65
- Zur Problematik des archaischen Friedhofes bei Sakkara (H.A. Kees) OLZ 52, 1957, 12-20
- Sakkara. Het graf van koningin Herneith (A. Klasens) Phoenix 2.2, 1956, 71-78
- Neues von archaïschen Friedhof von Sakkara (H.A. Kees) OLZ 54, 1959, 565-570
- An Egyptian Royal Stela of the Second Dynasty (H.G. Fischer) Artibus Asiae 24, 1961, 45-56 (Nebra)
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at North Saqqara 1964-5 (W.Emery) JEA 51, 1965, 3-8 (aerial photo)
- A Propos de la Stèle de l' Horus Raneb (J.P. Lauer) Orientalia 35, 1966, 21-7
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at North Saqqara 1965-6 (W.Emery) JEA 52, 1966, 3-8
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at North Saqqara 1966-7 (W.Emery) JEA 53, 1967, 141-5
- The Egyptian Ist Dynasty Royal Cemetery (B.J. Kemp) Antiquity 41, 1967, 22-32 (Merka)
- Tomb 3070 at Saqqara (W.B. Emery) JEA 54, 1968, 11-3
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at North Saqqara 1968-9 (W.B. Emery) JEA 56, 1970, 5-11
- Preliminary Report on the Excavations at North Saqqara 1969-70 (W.B. Emery) JEA 57, 1971, 3-13
- Walter Brian Emery (H.S. Smith) JEA 57, 1971, 190-201 (Obituary)
- Bemerkungen zur fruhen und spaten Bauphase des Djoserbezirkes in S. (H. Altenmuller) MDAIK 28, 1972, 1-12
- Bemerkungen zur Kreiselscheibe Nr. 310 aus dem Grab des Hemaka in S. (H. Altenmuller) GM 9, 1974, 13-18
- Researches on the Topography of North Saqqara (A.J. Spencer) Orientalia 43, 1974, 1-11
- Excavations in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara 1972-3 (G.T. Martin) JEA 60, 1974, 15-29
- An Analysis of the Tombs in a First Dynasty Cemetery at Sakkara. (J.J. Castillos) JSSEA, 6.4, 1976, 1-12
- Das Olmagazin im Grab des Hesire in Saqqara (QS 2405) (H. Altenmuller) SÄK 4, 1976, 1-29
- De Voortijd. 1e en 2e dynastie. II. De koningsgraven uit de 1e dynastie bij Sakkara (O. Mastenbroek) De Ibis 3, 1978, 53-60
- The North Saqqara Temple Town Survey: Preliminary Report 1976/77 (H.S. Smith - D.G. Jeffreys) JEA 64, 1978, 10-21
- The World of North Saqqara (J.D. Ray) WA 10/2, 1978, 149-57
- A Reconstruction of the Reliefs of Hesy-re (W. Wood) JARCE 15, 1978, 9-24
- Le Development des Complexes Funeraires Royaux en Egypte (J.P. Lauer) BIFAO 79,1979, 355-94
- De Voortijd. 1e en 2e dynastie. IV. Abydos of Sakkarah; waar waren de koningen van de 1e dynastie begraven ? (O.Mastenbroek) De Ibis 5, 1980, 22-28
- Le Premier Temple de Culte Funeraire en Egypte (J.P. Lauer) BIFAO 80, 1980, 45-67
- Memphis (C. M. Zivie) LÄ III, col. 24-41, 1980
- La signification et le role des fausses-portes de palais dans les tombeaux-type Naqada (Lauer) MDAIK 37
- Studies on Archaic Epigraphy I. (J.R. Ogdon) GM 52, 1981, 55-6 (Merka stela from S3505)
- Saqqara, Necropolen 1.-3. Dynastie. (Wolfgang Helck) Lexicon Ag. V, col. 387-400, 1983
- Das Vermeintliche Sonnenheiligtum im norden des Djoserbezirkes (R. Stadelmann) ASAE 69, 1983, 373-8
- Einige Bemerkungen zum Unas-Friedhof in Saqqara. 3. (P. Munro) SAK 10, 1983, 277-295
- Studies in Archaic Epigraphy XII. (J.R. Ogdon) GM 85, 1985, 55-8 (A title in Merka stela)
- A Propos de l' Invention de la Pierre de Taille par Imhotep (J.P. Lauer) BdE 97.2 (Mel. G.E. Mokhtar II) 1985, 61-7
- Die Oberbauten der Konigsgraber der 2. Dynastie in Sakkara (R. Stadelmann) BdE 97,2 (Mel. Mokhtar II) 1985, 295-307
- The Dry Moat of the Netjerykhet Complex (N. Swelim) in J. Baines ed. 'Pyramid Studies and other Essays ... to I.E.S. Edwards' 1988, 12-22
- Sur Certaines Modifications et Extensions apportees au Complexe Funeraire de Djoser au Course de son Regne (J.P. Lauer) in Baines - James ......... et al. eds. 'Pyramid Studies and other Essays presented to I.E.S. Edwards' 1988, 5-11
- The Organization of the Royal Cemeteries at Saqqara in the O.K. (A.M. Roth) JARCE 25, 1988, 201-14
- A Reason for the corbelled roof in Dynasty III and IV Pyramids (N. Swelim) JSSEA 14, 198?, 6-12
- Were the Archaic Kings buried in Sakkara or Abydos ? (W.M. van Haarlem) DE 17, 1990, 73-4
- Zur Nennung von Sened und Peribsen in Saqqara B3 (W. Kaiser) GM 122, 1991, 49-55
- Some Remarks on the Great Rectangular Monuments of Middle Saqqara (Swelim) MDAIK 47, 1991, 389-402
- Rollsiegel, Pierre de Taille and an Update on a King and Monument List of the Third Dynasty (N. Swelim) in 'Intellectual Heritage of Egypt - .... Studies Presented to Laszlo Kakosy.... his 60th Birthday' Studia Aegyptiaca 14, 1992, 541-554
- Memphis 1991 : Epigraphy (J. Malek - S. Quirke) JEA 78, 1992, 13-18 (Amenemhat II Annals)
- Zur Unteririrdischen Anlage der Djoserpyramide und ihrer entwicklungsgeschichtlichen Einordung (W. Kaiser) in: Wallert-Helck eds. ......... ' Gegengabe - FS Emma Brunner Traut' 1992, 167-190
- La Dualita' di tombe dei re della Prima Dinastia: un' interpretazione storico-religiosa e sociologica (J. Cervello Autuori) Atti VI° Congresso ........... 1992, 85-97
- Towards Archaic Memphis (D. Jeffreys - L.L. Giddy) EA 2, 1992, 6-7
- Prel. Report Nat. Mus. of Scotland Saqqara Surv. Proj. 1990-91(Mathieson,Tavares) JEA 79, 1993, 17-31
- Report .... at Saqqara (P. Munro et al.) DE 26, 1993, 47-58 (Ninetjer Tomb superstructures)
- Zur Topographie des Unas-Friedhofes (P. Munro) in 'Der Unas-Friedhof nord-west. I. Topographisch-historische Einleitung. Das Doppelgrab der Königinnen' (id.) p. 1-8 (1993)
- Zu den Konigsgrabern der 2. Dynastie in Sakkara und Abydos (W. Kaiser) in Bryan-Lorton eds. Essays in Egyptology in honor of H. Goedicke ......... 1994, 113-123 (the paper dates 1991)
- Abydos und Saqqara. Die ersten Königsgräber (T. Kühn) Kemet 3.2, 1994, 15-17
- A fragmentary monument of Djoser from Saqqara (Z. Hawass) JEA 80, 1994, 45-56
- Pyramid Research. From the Archaic to the S.I.P. Lists, Catalogues and Objectives (N. Swelim) in: C. Berger-G. Clerc-N. Grimal (eds.) ......... 'Hommages a Jean Leclant' BdE 106.1, 1994, 337-349
- The Historic Landscape of Early Dynastic Memphis (D. Jeffreys - A. Tavares) MDAIK 50, 1994, 143-73
- The Underground relief of Djoser at the Step Pyramid Complex (F.D. Friedman) JARCE 32, 1995, 1-42
- Gisr el-Mudir and the Early Royal Necropolis at Saqqara. (A. Cwiek) in: C. Eyre (ed.) Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge 3-9, September 1995. Abstracts of Papers, 1995, 41-42
- The Mysterious Second Dynasty (A. Dodson) KMT 7:2, 1996, 19-31
- A Preliminary Report on a New Archaic Mastaba at Saqqara (M. Youssef) GM 152, 1996, 105-112
- Remarques concernant l' inscription d' Imhotep sur le socle de statue ... Neterjkhet (J.P. Lauer) in 'Studies ... W.K. Simpson' 1996, 493-8
- Notions of Cosmos in the Step Pyramid Complex (F.D. Friedman) in P. der Manuelian ed. 'Studies ... W.K. Simpson' 1996, 337-51
- Origins and Development of the Funerary Complex of Djoser (R. Stadelmann) in der Manuelian ed. 'Studies ... W.K. Simpson' 1996, 787-800
- Zur Baugeschichte des Djoserbezirks. Grabschacht und Grabkammer der Stufenmastaba (R. Stadelmann) MDAIK 52, 1996, 295-305
- The National Museums of Scotland Saqqara Survey Project 1993-1995 (Mathieson -Tavares et al.) JEA 83, 1997, 17-53
- Aux pieds de Djoser - Les Mastabas entreFosse et Enceinte ... (M. Baud) Or. Monsp IX. 1997, 69-87
- Uncharted Saqqara: an Essay (H.S. Smith) Or. Monsp IX. 1997, 379-393
- Uncharted Saqqara : A Postscript (S. Davies) JEA 84, 1998, 45-56
- Unpublished Blocks from Saqqara (M.I. Aly) MDAIK 54, 1998, 219-26
- On the Threshold of Glory: The Third Dynasty (A. Dodson) KMT 9:2, 1998, 27-40
- Menfi (S. Seidlmayer) in Kemet. Alle sorgenti del tempo, 121-124. Catalogo mostra di Ravenna, 1998
- Pyramide de Djoser : montant de porte (Z. Hawass); " " : Stele-borne (C. Ziegler) Louvre Exib. Catalog, 1999
- The need for Seismic Analysis and Planning ... Necropolis of Saqqara (E. Johnson) JARCE 36, 1999, 135-47
- Saqqara North, Early Dynastic tombs (A. Tavares) in: K. Bard (ed.) Encyclopedia..., 1999, 700-704
- Saqqara, pyramids of the 3rd Dynasty (J.P. Lauer) in: K. Bard (ed.) Encyclopedia..., 1999, 704-708
- La Chronologie de la prehistoire tardive et des debuts de l' histoire de l' Egypte (S. Hendrickx), Archéo-Nil 9, 1999, 13-81, 99-107
- A new survey of Saqqara (D. Jeffreys) EA 16, 2000, 3-5
- The Stratigraphy of West Saqqara. Preliminary Remarks (A. Cwiek) PAM 11, 2000, 109-117 (Dry Moat)
Digging Diary (L. Giddy) EA 3, 1990-present
- Saqqara - Excavations 1996-2000 (K. Mysliwiec), PAM 8, 1997- PAM 12, 2000
- Arguments for an Upper Egyptian Origin of the Palace-Facade and the Serekh during Late Predynastic- Early Dynastic times (S. Hendricks) GM 184, 2001, 85-110
- Sporen van een revolutie in Saqqara. Het nieuw ontdekte graf van Meryneith alias Meryre ... (R. van Walsem) Phoenix 47(1-2). 2001, 68-89 (A Second Dynasty royal tomb substructure under the tomb of the High Priest of Aton...)
- Back to the Mastaba tombs of the First Dynasty at Saqqara. Officials or Kings? (Josep Cervelló Autuori) in: R. Pirelli (ed.) Egyptological Essays on State and Society, 2002, 27-61
- The Early Dynastic Royal Cemetery at Saqqara. Area West of the Step Pyramid Complex (J. van Wetering) n.p.
- The Royal Cemetery of the Early Dynastic Period at Saqqara and the Second Dynasty Royal Tombs (Joris van Wetering) in: 'Proceedings of the Krakow Conference 2002' in press
- Preliminary Report on the Leiden Excavations at Saqqara, Season 2002: The tomb of Meryneith, (M.J. Raven, R. van Walsem, B.G. Aston, E. Strouhal), in: JEOL 37, 2002, 91-109 (espec. 98-100)
- The Unexpected find of a Royal Tomb, in: Saqqara Newsletter 1, 2003, 8-12 (FRIENDS OF SAQQARA)
-Une tombe royale de la deuxieme dynastie à Saqqara sous la tombe du nouvel empire de Meryneith, campagne de fouille 2001-2002 (René van Walsem), in: Archéo-Nil 13, 2003
- On Pyramid Causeways (C. Reader) JEA 90, 2004, 63-71
- Report of the Saqqara Geophysical Survey Project (I. Mathieson et al., eds.) in print.


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- Auguste Mariette, Les Mastabas de l' Ancien Empire. 1889 (p. 71-86) (MM)
- C.R. Lepsius, Denkmaler aus Agypten und Athiopien. 12 vols. Leipzig, 1849-59, 1897-1913
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- Cecil M. Firth - J.E. Quibell - J.P. Lauer, The Step Pyramid. 2 vols. Cairo, 1935-1936 (Step Pyr. I-II)
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- W.B. Emery, Hor-Aha. Excavations at Saqqara 1937-1938. Cairo, 1939
- R. Macramallah, Un cimitiere archaique de la classe moyenne du peuple a Saqqara. Cairo, 1940
- W.S. Smith, A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. Bost., 1949 (HESPOK)
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