About
(Self appointed) Co-Editor in Chief of The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture (JAEA). Member of the International Association of Egyptologists. Archaeologist and scholar specializing in authentically understanding the architecture, landscapes, and iconography of Antiquity, particularly from ancient Egypt, Greece, the Levant, and Cyprus, by employing traditional methods, post-modern theory, and cutting edge technologies.
Address: Burlington, Vermont, USA Education
PhD in Archaeology, University of Glasgow, Scotland 2013.
MPhil Mediterranean Archaeology (Research), University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2008.
PGCE Postgraduate Teaching certificate in Technological Education, Jordahill College of Education, Scotland, 1998.
BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, 1992. Publications
BOOKS
THE GREAT PYRAMID, Operations Manual, Haynes Publisher, 2019
by David Ian Lightbody and Franck Monnier
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Full translation from the Spanish of “The Tomb of Vizier Rekhmire TT100” by Josep M. Güell
Full translation of the published book from the Spanish to English by David Ian Lightbody.
Egyptian Tomb Architecture. The Archaeological Facts of Pharaonic Circular Symbolism, British Archaeological Reports International Series
PAPERS
Book review of Josef Wegner’s publication: The Sunshade Chapel of Meritaten from the House-of-Waenre of Akhenaten, in JAEA3 (2018), pp. 173-175
The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
“History Space: Home Front and Battle Front. A WW1 legacy at Lakeview Cemetery” Burlington Free Press, 14 Oct. 2018
Questioning the Void. Looking for Plausible Interpretations of the ScanPyramids Dataset, KMT, Vol. 29, No.3, pp. 40-48.
(D. I. Lightbody and Fr. Monnier), An elegant vault design principle identified in Old and New Kingdom architecture, JAEA 2, 2017, p. 55-69
The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
Nile Magazine Dec 2016 – The Quest for Khufu – excerpt
The Encircling Motifs of Old Kingdom Avian Themed Pharaonic Vases in Göttinger Miszellen vol. 249, pp. 109-119.
Biography of a Great Pyramid Casing Stone in The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
The Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture
The Encircling Protection of Horus in Proceedings of the XIIth Current Researches in Egyptology Conference, University of Durham.
Signs of Conciliation: The Hybridised ‘Tree of Life’ in the Iron Age City Kingdoms of Cyprus in the proceedings of the POCA conference, MOMA Lyon, 2011
The Cubit in Iron Age Cypriot Architecture in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus
The day the Boy King went walkabout. Modern politics meets Ancient Egypt in the University of Glasgow Guardian newspaper
Overseers of an Entangled Island: Hybrid Cultural Identities of Early Iron Age Cyprus in the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections
PHD THESIS
The Hybridising Tree of Life: A Postcolonial Archaeology of the Cypriot Iron Age City Kingdoms
MASTERS THESIS
An Iron Age Measurement System from Cyprus : A Postcolonial Analysis of its Use in Monumental ArchitectureProjects
Currently completing a major monograph and two academic papers. Continue to develop the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Memberships
Professional Member of the International Association of Egyptologists 2020.
