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Myrtle and the “Boy King” Tutankhamun

Myrtle and the “Boy King” Tutankhamun

November 22, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome, Tutankhamun

Author: Susan Biddle. To mark the anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter and his team, this post looks at…

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Police – 2: The frontier police and senior police officers

Police – 2: The frontier police and senior police officers

October 18, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at Myrtle Broome’s dealings with the frontier police and with the higher ranks of the police force. Each season…

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A busy five days in Cairo, 10–14 October 1929

A busy five days in Cairo, 10–14 October 1929

April 19, 2022
by Francisco Bosch-Puche
Myrtle Broome

Author: Susan Biddle. In this post, join Myrtle Broome in Cairo, visiting the British Consulate, the Gezira Sporting Club, the Cairo Museum and the Pyramids,…

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Tutankhamun's 'Charlie Chaplin' stick

Tutankhamun’s ‘Charlie Chaplin’ stick

September 12, 2014
by Elizabeth Fleming
Tutankhamun

Something that caught our eye in the Griffith Institute Archive … We recently assessed a beautifully bound album that required a little TLC and needed…

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Howard Carter's diaries

Left London. 1.40pm. For Marseilles.

December 24, 2013
by Vincent Razanajao
Tutankhamun

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…

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My dear Gardiner

My dear Gardiner

November 28, 2013
by Vincent Razanajao
Tutankhamun

  In an aged “Newspaper Cuttings” album, compiled by the great Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, one unexpectedly finds two envelopes neatly attached to a page,…

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Burton Photograph no. 9

Can you see anything?

November 26, 2013
by Vincent Razanajao
Tutankhamun

‘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…

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