![Animals – 2: Camp dogs – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Wip-wat-with-mother-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s love of animals shines through many of her letters. This post is one of a series looking at the animals…
![Animals – 1: Camp dogs – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Wip-wat-photo-Screenshot-from-letter-123-470x140.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. Myrtle Broome’s interest in animals, and love of dogs in particular, is clear in many of her letters. This post is one…
![Shoes and clothes – 3](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1178-loading-generator-on-cart-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the third in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on the clothes worn by the servants who…
![Shoes and clothes – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1131-scarecrow-on-Red-Sea-coast-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of a series looking at clothing, and focuses on the day-to-day clothes worn by Myrtle Broome and…
![Learning Arabic – 3](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Broome_276_5p_res150ppi-Cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This is the third of a series about Myrtle Broome’s experience of learning Arabic. This post is the first of two looking…
![Mental health – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ART.225-3-Disrobing-Amen-Ra-detail.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second of two looking at the impact that the intense work and isolated living conditions at Arabah el-Madfunah…
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Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of two looking at the impact that the intense work and isolated living conditions at Arabah el-Madfunah…
![Eyes and Teeth](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Asyut-cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at the different solutions the team at Abydos adopted for dealing with dental crises, and at some of the…
![The team’s physical health – 2: Accidents](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/homocea-hands1-cropped.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the accidents, both minor and major, that happened to Myrtle Broome and her colleagues at Abydos….
![The team’s physical health – 1: Illness](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vapex-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the illnesses, both minor and more serious, that afflicted the Abydos team, and how these were…