Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle’s birthdays were celebrated with birthday cake, presents and cards from family and friends in England and Egypt, as well as special…
Author: Susan Biddle. For eight seasons from 1929 until 1937 Myrtle Broome worked with Amice Calverley on recording the reliefs in the temple of Seti…
Something that caught our eye in the Griffith Institute Archive … We recently assessed a beautifully bound album that required a little TLC and needed…
Happy 75th Birthday Griffith Institute! On this day, January 21st 1939, the Griffith Institute was officially opened by the former director of the British Museum,…
Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is the number one site for the original documentation created by Howard Carter following his discovery of the tomb of…
In an aged “Newspaper Cuttings” album, compiled by the great Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, one unexpectedly finds two envelopes neatly attached to a page,…
‘Can you see anything? Yes, wonderful things.’ On this day, 91 years ago, Howard Carter uttered arguably the most famous phrase in archaeology, and we…