Lea Rees

Position

Teaching Associate

Correspondence Address

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Email

lea.rees@ames.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research interests cover a range of topics, ranging from Egyptian archaeology, in particular settlement archaeology, landscape archaeology, cultural interactions, and research history, to theoretical approaches to ancient and modern archaeological case studies. 

Current Projects 

  • Project lead of the fieldwork project “Die Baracken südlich der Roten Pyramide in Dahschur. Erforschung der Infrastruktur einer antiken Großbaustelle“, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation
  • Project lead of the fieldwork project “The sarcophagus ensemble of Ramesses III. Recording and reassembling the sarcophagus fragments found in KV 11”, funded by the G. A. Wainwright Fund

Biography

Lea Rees is a Teaching Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. From 2022-2025, she held the Lady Wallis Budge Junior Research Fellowship in Egyptology at University College. Her dissertation at the Egyptological Seminar at Freie Universität Berlin dealt with creating a social topography of Dahshur and will be published as a Sonderschrift des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts in Kairo. After working on excavations in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, she is a member of the German Archaeological Institute’s Dahshur-Project since 2015, of the Humboldt University’s Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project since 2016, and of the Rosetta Project of the University of Padova since 2025.

 

Full Publications

Monographs in preparation

  • The Biography of a Monument: The Pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur (working title), with H. Navratilova, Oxford Studies in Egyptian Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  • Dahschur V: Der Mastabakomplex des Ipi, with N. Alexanian, and contributions by A. Nerlich and a foreword by St. J. Seidlmayer, Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 137, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

  • Entwurf einer Sozialtopographie Dahschurs: Über die zeitlichen, funktionalen und sozialen Transformationen einer antiken Kulturlandschaft, Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo 15, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Edited volumes

  • Akhet Neheh. Studies in Honour of Willem Hovestreydt on Occasion of his 75th Birthday, edited by A. Weber/M. Grünhagen/L. Rees/J. Moje, GHP Egyptology Series 33, London: Golden House Publications, 2020.

Articles on the archaeological site of Dahshur

  • ‘Dahshur before Snefru. A critical evaluation concerning Early Dynastic activities at the site’, in: Y. Tristant/J. Villaeys/E.M. Ryan (eds.), Egypt at its Origins 7. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference ‘Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt’, Paris 19th–23rd September 2022, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323, Leuven: Peeters, 2024, pp. 647–671

  • ‘Spaces of possibilities. Negotiating space at Dahshur, Egypt’, in: What does this have to do with archaeology? Essays on the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Reinhard Bernbeck, Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2023, pp. 159–165.

Articles on the tomb of Ramesses III (KV 11)

  • ‘Les auxiliaires royaux dans l’autre monde. Les chouabtis du Pharaon Ramsès III au Musée du Louvre’, with J. Moje, in: Égypte, Afrique et Orient 116, 2025, pp. 37–44.

  • The burial equipment of Ramesses III in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Current Research on the Collection of Henry Salt’, with A. Weber and W. Hovestreydt, in: Egyptian Archaeology 65, 2024, pp. 10–15.

  • ‘Third Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)’, with A. Weber and W. Hovestreydt, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 107, 2021, pp. 79–104.

  • ‘KV 11 Revisited. Collecting Archive Material in Oxford and London Concerning the Tomb of Ramesses III’, with A. Weber and W. Hovestreydt, in: Egyptian Archaeology 58, 2021, pp. 36–41.

  • ‘Second Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)’, with A. Weber et al., Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 56, 2020, pp. 213–246.

  • ‘The Sarcophagus Ensemble of Ramesses III from KV 11: New Insights from Old Manuscripts and Recent Finds’, with H. Strudwick, in: A. Weber et al. (eds.), Akhet Neheh. Studies in Honour of Willem Hovestreydt on Occasion of his 75th Birthday, London: Golden House Publications, 2020, pp. 43–55.

Articles on archaeological theory

  • ‘Raumbilder als Träume vergangener Gesellschaften. Raumsoziologische Ansätze in den deutschsprachigen Altertumswissenschaften’, in: M. Renger/ S. Schreiber/A. Veling (eds.), Theorie / Archäologie / Reflexion. Kontroversen und Ansätze im deutschsprachigen Diskurs, Theoriedenken in der Archäologie 2, in press. 
  • ‘From a Laboratory of Power to a Laboratory of Violence: The Panoptic Layout of the Nazi Concentration Camp at Sachsenhausen and the Diverging Intentions of Disciplinary and Absolute Power’, in: Journal of Contemporary Archaeology 7.1, 2020, pp. 112–134. 
  • ‘Die Produktion subalterner Möglichkeitsräume: Zur Umnutzung, Besetzung und Ambivalenz von Raum anhand altägyptischer Beispiele’, with St. Schreiber, in: Forum Kritische Archäologie 8, 2019, pp. 114–134.

 

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