![Myrtle and the “Boy King” Tutankhamun](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Burton_0009_res1800-copy.jpg)
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…
![Police – 2: The frontier police and senior police officers](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/prbmt-05167red-cropped.png)
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…
![Tutankhamun's 'Charlie Chaplin' stick](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Burton_0337_detail_2s-283x140.jpg)
Something that caught our eye in the Griffith Institute Archive … We recently assessed a beautifully bound album that required a little TLC and needed…
![Howard Carter's diaries](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/carter-diaries-fi-470x140.jpg)
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…
![My dear Gardiner](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Gardiner_Carnarvon_letter_November_28_1922_envelope-470x140.jpg)
In an aged “Newspaper Cuttings” album, compiled by the great Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, one unexpectedly finds two envelopes neatly attached to a page,…
![Burton Photograph no. 9](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Burton_0009_Featured-470x140.jpg)
‘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…