| Umm el-Qaab. Nachuntersuchungen im frühzeitlichen Königsfriedhof. 9./10. Vorbericht G Dreyer, U Hartung, T Hikade, EC Köhler, V Müller, F Pumpenmeier Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 54, 77-167, 1998 | 264* | 1998 |
| History or Ideology?: New Reflections on the Narmer Palette and the Nature of Foreign Relations in Pre-and Early Dynastic Egypt EC Köhler Egypt and the Levant, 499-513, 2002 | 78 | 2002 |
| Theories of state formation EC Köhler Egyptian archaeology, 36-54, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
| Helwan I: Excavations in the Early Dynastic cemetery, season 1997/98 EC Köhler Heidelberger Orientverlag, 2005 | 46* | 2005 |
| On the origins of Memphis: The new excavations in the Early Dynastic necropolis at Helwan EC Köhler Egypt at its origins: Studies in memory of Barbara Adams: Proceedings of the …, 2004 | 44 | 2004 |
| The Interaction between and the Roles of Upper and Lower Egypt in the Formation of the Egyptian State Another Review EC Köhler L'Egypte pré-et protodynastique. Les origines de l'Etat Predynastic and …, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Helwan II: the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom funerary relief slabs EC Köhler, J Jones Marie Leidorf, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| The state of research on Late Predynastic Egypt EC Köhler Göttinger Miszellen 147, 79-92, 1995 | 36 | 1995 |
| Imported pottery from Abydos: a new petrographic perspective U Hartung, EC Köhler, V Müller, MF Ownby Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 25, 295-333, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Tell el-Fara in: Buto III EC Köhler | 35 | 1998 |
| Vorbericht über die Ausgrabungen des DAI in Tell el-Faraʻin/Buto 1993 bis 1995 D Faltings, CE Köhler Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 52, 87-114, 1996 | 33 | 1996 |
| Early Dynastic pottery from Helwan-Establishing a Cermic Corpus of the Naqada III Period EC Kohler, JC Smythe Cahiers de la céramique égyptienne, 123-143, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
| The Pre-and Early Dynastic pottery of Tel el-Fara'in/Buto EC Köhler nile delta in transition: 4th.-3rd. millennium bc: proceedings of the …, 1992 | 27 | 1992 |
| Les mines du ouadi Um Balad désert Oriental G Castel, EC Köhler, B Mathieu, G Pouit Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 98, 57-87, 1998 | 26 | 1998 |
| Wadi el-Sheikh: A new archaeological investigation of ancient Egyptian chert mines EC Köhler, E Hart, M Klaunzer Plos one 12 (2), e0170840, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| The Helwan Cemetery EC Köhler Archéo-nil 18 (1), 113-130, 2008 | 24 | 2008 |
| Socio-economic aspects of early pottery production in the Nile Delta EC Köhler Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 8, 81-89, 1997 | 24 | 1997 |
| Evidence for interregional contacts between Late Prehistoric Lower and Upper Egypt: a view from Buto EC Köhler Interregional contacts in the later prehistory of Northeastern Africa, 215-225, 1996 | 23 | 1996 |
| Of pots and myths: Attempting a comparative study of funerary pottery assemblages in the Egyptian Nile Valley during the late 4th millennium BC EC Köhler, A Mączyńska The Nile Delta as a Centre of Cultural Interactions Between Upper Egypt and …, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Levantine imports and their imitations from Helwan CE Köhler, M Ownby Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant 21, 31-46, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
