![The “dig house” at Abydos](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AB_09_0223-Cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. The dig houses at Abydos, from Flinders Petrie’s dig huts to the house Myrtle knew. “The beauty of this place passes description,…
![Clearing customs at Port Said and Alexandria](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HRT_BUSMT_2000_227_21-001.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Next time you negotiate the Customs channels at an airport or dock, spare a thought for Myrtle Broome and Amice Calverley dealing…
![Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Count_of_Monte_Cristo_1913-detail.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…
![The voyage to Port Said – London to Marseille](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Marseille_Palais_Longchamp_02_20061231.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s enthusiasm and interest in everything around her shines out from her description of her voyage to Port Said on the…
![Happy Birthday, Myrtle!](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Broome_279_04p-cropped.jpg)
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…
![The Broome Letters - Introduction](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/ART.226-cropped.jpg)
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…