Dows Dunham

He was taught by George Andrew Reisner, who offered him a job and made him one of his main assistants.

Dunham was a member of numerous expeditions in Egypt and Sudan beginning in 1914, where he worked mainly on Reisner's team.

He was a curator at the Egyptian department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until 1956, and published a large part of the excavations of George Andrew Reisner, whose excavation documents are kept in the Museum of Fine Arts after his retirement.

Walter Vose of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology advised the project with practical engineering knowledge.

Mark Lehner did write in his book: "This form of ramp would require far less material than the straight-on type".