![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…
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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…
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Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second in a series looking at clothing. This instalment focuses on footwear. The team’s shoes and boots got…
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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…
![Water – 4](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Arabsittingonrockoverpool-Cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the last of four looking at water, and focuses on the various wells and springs Myrtle Broome encountered on…
![Water – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Eastern_Desert-cropped-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of four looking at water, and focuses on the team’s personal washing arrangements at the Abydos dig-house…
![Children’s Christmas parties](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/FHJTBCOIRGZZOB1-cropped-1.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at the parties Amice Calverley, Myrtle Broome and others gave for the local Egyptian and ex-patriate children at Christmas….
![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…
![Sardic](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1135.2-Sardic-kissing-camel.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at “Sardic”, the head servant at Abydos, and the extraordinary range of his contributions to the success of the…