TUTANKHAMUN

HIERATIC DOCUMENTS

PHOTOGRAPHS

WATERCOLOURS

THEBAN TOMB RESOURCES

PETRIE JOURNALS

PORTRAITS & HANDWRITING OF EGYPTOLOGISTS

CATALOGUES

VARIOUS

Maps, plans and drawings

The Search for Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation

• database of all finds
• gallery of photographs
• galleries of photographs not directly connected with the database:
  • the exterior of the tomb
  • the painted decoration in the Burial Chamber
  • general views of the Valley of the Kings
  • miscellaneous topics
• Harry Burton's photographs showing work in Tutankhamun's tomb
• ten albums of photographs assembled by Harry Burton
• excavation and pocket diaries:
  • 1st excavation season, late 1922 and early 1923
  • 2nd excavation season, 1923-4
  • 3rd excavation season, early 1925
  • 4th excavation season, 1925-6
  • 5th excavation season, 1926-7
  • 6th excavation season, 1927-8
  • 7th excavation season, late 1928
  • 8th excavation season, 1929-30
  • 9th excavation season, late 1930
• Maps, plans and drawings
• Photographs by anonymous photographers showing scenes outside the tomb of Tutankhamun
• Howard Carter's notes made in preparation of the complete publication of the tomb
• Howard Carter's copies of A. H. Gardiner's recordings of inscriptions on some objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Carter's Notebook TAA i.2.7
• Notes on various aspects of the tomb and its contents, filed with object cards:
  • Notes on the robberies, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Lord Carnarvon
  • Notes on the Annexe, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and A. H. Gardiner
  • Notes and memoranda, by Alfred Lucas
• Alfred Lucas's notes on conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun:
  • Preliminaries and miscellaneous
  • Season 1922-3
  • Probably season 1923-4 or 1924-5
  • Season 1925-6
  • Seasons 1926-7 and 1927-8
  • Season 1928-9
  • Probably season 1929-30 or 1930-1
  • Register of samples 1922-1939

Various records connected with Tutankhamun's tomb

• Jaroslav Cerný: papyri and ostraca
• Sir Alan H. Gardiner: papyri and ostraca
• B.G. Gunn
• T.E. Peet
• F.Ll. Griffith
• B. Grdseloff
• J.W.B. Barns and P.C. Smither

• Egyptian Mirage
• Levantine Mirage
• J. P. Simpson photographs

Petrie's Photographs of Egypt. Landscape, monuments, people. A database of photographs taken by Flinders Petrie in Egypt in 1886-7.

Photographs of Egypt 1922-1933 by Reginald St. Alban Heathcote

Photographs of Egypt by John Ross

Griffith Institute watercolours and drawings

• Tomb TT 57, of Khaemhet, of the reign of Amenophis III
• Tomb TT 106, of Paser, of the reigns of Sethos I and Ramesses II
• Tomb KV 17, of Sethos I

Theban tomb tracings made by Norman and Nina de Garis Davies

• E. W. Lane: catalogue
• J. J. Clère MSS: general list
• Sir Alan H. Gardiner MSS: preliminary sample catalogue
• Griffith Institute: list of miscellaneous items
• Griffith Institute: squeezes
• John de Monins Johnson: negatives made during the excavations at Antinoe
• Catalogue of the papers of Sarah J. Clackson

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