En 1936, en compagnie d’A. Lansing, il découvre le cercueil de Ramosé (père de Sénènmout) sous la dalle de la tombe TT71, celle de Sénènmout, dans la nécropole thébaine.

En 1956, il a été conseiller à la production du film Les Dix Commandements.

Publications

– Royal sarcophagi of the XVIII dynasty (Princeton monographs in art and archaeology : Quarto series. XIX), Princeton university press,‎ 1935 (ASIN B000874326) ;
– Glazed tiles from a palace of Ramesses II at Kantir, Metropolitan Museum of Art,‎ 1937 (ASIN B000857D1Q) ;
– Ostraka and name stones from the tomb of Sen-Mut (no. 71) at Thebes, Arno Press,‎ 1942 (réimpr. 1973) (ISBN 978-0405022395) ;
– The scepter of Egypt, Harvard University Press,‎ 1953 (ASIN B0007DMNVY) ;
– The Scepter of Egypt. A background for the study of Egyptian antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. I : From the earliest times to the end of the Middle Kingdom, Metropolitan Museum of Art,‎ 1953 ;
– Egypt, Internal Affairs from Tuthmosis I to the Death of Amenophis III. Part 2., Cambridge U.P,‎ 1962 (ISBN 9780521044349) ;
– The Scepter of Egypt. A background for the study of Egyptian antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II : The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675 - 1080 B. C), Metropolitan Museum of Art,‎ 1959 (réimpr. 1968) (ASIN B001BSRKXU) ;
– Chronology : Egypt-to end of twentieth dynasty, Cambridge University Press,‎ 1964 (ASIN B0007J69PO).

Bibliographie

– M. L. Bierbrier, Who was Who in Egyptology, 3rd ed., London 1995, p. 195-196.