100 years after Tutankhamun’s mummified body was unwrapped, we are retelling this story through the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, a new searchable database of every archaeological record from the tomb’s excavation.
Explore the Beta release on the 1925 unwrapping: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

Tomorrow we unwrap a new way to explore Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Griffith Institute @UniofOxford will launch the Beta version of the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive featuring the king’s body, his funerary mask, & all the objects revealed during the 1925 unwrapping. #Tutankhamun #Archaeology #Egyptology

On this day 100 years ago, the team excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun removed the lid of the king’s outermost coffin.

Thinking of warmer climates with these shots of the Memphite statue of Ramesses II across various different collections! (Hoskins MSS 1.110, Horeau 4.2 and Béchard photograph 134).
صور من الأرشيف لتمثال رمسيس الثاني في ممفيس (ميت رهينه). Hoskins MSS 1.110, Horeau MSS 4.2 و Béchard photograph 134

جوارب أطفال من العصر المتأخر في مصر. حفائر جمعية استكشاف مصر بالشيخ عبادة (انطينوبوليس) علم ١٩١٣-١٩١٤.
من مجموعة John de Monins Johnson
Tiny late antique children’s socks discovered during the Egypt Exploration Fund’s 1913-14 excavations at Antinoupolis. From the John de Monins Johnson Collection

نتأمل جمال لوحة Wild I.C.12، هذه اللوحة الجميلة التي رسمها جيمس ويلد للسقف والأفريز داخل مقبرة كا و زوجته مريت TT 8.
We’ve just been admiring Wild MSS i.C.12, James Wild’s gorgeous painting of the ceiling and frieze of the tomb of the foreman Kha & his wife Merit (TT8, Deir el-Medina).

Another great image from the archive -
المدخل إلى بهو الأعمدة في معبد دير الحجر، واحة الداخلة، حوالي عام ١٨٧٣

The entrance to the hypostyle of the Temple of Deir el Hagar, Dakhla Oasis. c1873. Remelé MSS Da 01.

Recently we've been admiring early images of Egypt from the Simpson collection, including this beautiful fountain of the mosque of Mohammad Ali in Cairo. Photo taken in 1888 (Griffith Institute, Simpson Photograph Collection).
نافورة جامع محمد من مجموعة الفوتوغرافية علي - القاهرة في عام ١٨٨٨.​

To mark the day in 1838 that Charles Wheatstone presented his stereoscope to the Royal Society, the Griffith Institute joins the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy in celebrating the fourth International Stereoscopy Day.

We are lucky to have Sara Aly joining us & working hard researching the Clère collection (archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/cl...). Success stories from her work include locating statues & other unidentified objects discussed in Clère's notes which are now part of international museum collections!

We are delighted to share the exciting news that Lara Bampfield has joined our team as the Research Assistant for our new Tutankhamun project which aims to produce the first spatial archive in Egyptology!

Happy 151st Birthday to Howard Carter, born on this day in 1874! To mark the occasion this year, we are sharing Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent', which is said to have hung above his desk in his house, 'Carter Castle II', at Thebes.

Some recent excitement in the archive - Nick from the Bodleian joined us to take new images of some of our fantastic Carter drawings and watercolours!
Thank you to Nick for his work, and we can't wait to see the results!

Part-time vacancy at the Griffith Institute working on the Tutankhamun archive! The part-time post will assist in the creation of the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 11 March 2025.
You can find more details about the post here: shorturl.at/NhRLH

Thanks to a generous donation from the Friends of the Nations' Libraries (www.fnl.org.uk), we are so pleased to share that we have acquired 3 original lecture notes of Howard Carter! Our first step is to digitise and make these notes available online.

Happy birthday to us! 🎉 Today we are celebrating the 86th anniversary of the foundation of the Griffith Institute, home to the study of ancient Egypt and the Near East at Oxford.

We are delighted to share that we recently received a major grant from the University’s John Fell Fund! This will be used to revamp the Tutankhamun online resource (www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringT...) - stay tuned for further updates!

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