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