We are delighted to share that Howard Carter's excavation journals for seasons 1, 7, 8 and 9 have now been published on the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/journals-and...

Journals and diaries

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive - we have now implemented a feedback form (click on the yellow box on the right hand side named 'Feedback') and are looking forward to learning more about your experiences of the site! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s

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We are delighted to share that the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Digital Preservation Awards in the category of The National Archives (UK) Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy. (www.dpconline.org/events/digit...)

The stereoscope, a device that creates the illusion of three-dimensional images, was presented to the Royal Society by Charles Wheatstone on this day in 1838. To mark the anniversary, we are joining the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy in celebrating the fifth International Stereoscopy Day.

We've recently collaborated with Julia Vidile (juliavidile.com) to produce a free interactive game exploring the objects of daily life from Tutankhamun's tomb through the adventures of Mary (an archivist from today) and Mery (an Egyptian priest who lived during Tutankhamun's reign)!

🖐️ We're hiring! 🖐️We're looking for a part-time archivist to join us the Griffith Institute! For more details, check out the ad on the University of Oxford webpage or linked here: www.jobs.ac.uk/.../griffith... Please share with anyone that you think might be interested!

We have published a new story today on the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, highlighting the invaluable contribution of the Egyptian team members to the excavation! You can read this here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/stories/egyp...

We have published a new story today on the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive. Read and enjoy! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/stories/most...

‘Most private’ Letter from Carnarvon

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We are excited to share another new story, which is now available to read on the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, this time about the archive as a living network! You can find the story here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/stories/seei...

Seeing the Archive as a Living Network: An Archivist’s Perspective on the Tutankhamun Archive

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This month we continue to update our new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive with material, including scientific notes - today we published notes on the first (outermost) sepulchral shrine which you can see here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/scientific-n... As always, we welcome any feedback!

Job alert: A fixed-term lectureship in Egyptology (2 years) at Oxford, to cover the sabbatical leave of two members of staff, Richard Parkinson (2026-7) and Elizabeth Frood (2027-8); see www.jobs.ac.uk/.../departme.... or search for 'Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology' on: jobs.ox.ac.uk

Another new story is now available to read on the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, this time about some of the fascinating images and their creation process! You can find the story here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/stories/seei...

We are busy updating the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive with material, including scientific notes completed on several important objects - today we published several notes on the shrines which you can see here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/scientific-n...

New publication alert! An exciting new volume on the furniture of Hetepheres I, completed and edited by Geoffrey P. Killen (with contributions from Julie Dawson and Helen Farrar) is now available to purchase!

While we work on uploading all of our Tutankhamun materials onto the new Spatial Archive, we're also working on some exciting collaborative projects including creating 3D models of some of the famous funerary objects. You can read about this work here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/stories/re-c...

Re-creating Tutankhamun’s Mask in 3D: From Harry Burton’s Photographs to a Digital Model

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We are busy updating the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive with material and we are happy to announce that all related maps, plans, sketches and drawings are now available online! You can browse them here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/maps-plans-s... As always, we welcome any feedback!

It's been a very exciting year for us with the launch of our new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, and we are looking forward to sharing more in 2026. We hope you enjoy the new website, which now includes a brand new story you can read here: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk/.../preservi....

100 years after Tutankhamun’s mummified body was unwrapped, we are retelling this story through the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, a new searchable database of every archaeological record from the tomb’s excavation. Explore the Beta release on the 1925 unwrapping: tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s

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Tomorrow we unwrap a new way to explore Tutankhamun’s tomb. The Griffith Institute @UniofOxford will launch the Beta version of the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive featuring the king’s body, his funerary mask, & all the objects revealed during the 1925 unwrapping. #Tutankhamun #Archaeology #Egyptology

On this day 100 years ago, the team excavating the tomb of Tutankhamun removed the lid of the king’s outermost coffin.

Thinking of warmer climates with these shots of the Memphite statue of Ramesses II across various different collections! (Hoskins MSS 1.110, Horeau 4.2 and Béchard photograph 134). صور من الأرشيف لتمثال رمسيس الثاني في ممفيس (ميت رهينه). Hoskins MSS 1.110, Horeau MSS 4.2 و Béchard photograph 134

جوارب أطفال من العصر المتأخر في مصر. حفائر جمعية استكشاف مصر بالشيخ عبادة (انطينوبوليس) علم ١٩١٣-١٩١٤. من مجموعة John de Monins Johnson Tiny late antique children’s socks discovered during the Egypt Exploration Fund’s 1913-14 excavations at Antinoupolis. From the John de Monins Johnson Collection

نتأمل جمال لوحة Wild I.C.12، هذه اللوحة الجميلة التي رسمها جيمس ويلد للسقف والأفريز داخل مقبرة كا و زوجته مريت TT 8. We’ve just been admiring Wild MSS i.C.12, James Wild’s gorgeous painting of the ceiling and frieze of the tomb of the foreman Kha & his wife Merit (TT8, Deir el-Medina).

Another great image from the archive - المدخل إلى بهو الأعمدة في معبد دير الحجر، واحة الداخلة، حوالي عام ١٨٧٣ The entrance to the hypostyle of the Temple of Deir el Hagar, Dakhla Oasis. c1873. Remelé MSS Da 01.

Recently we've been admiring early images of Egypt from the Simpson collection, including this beautiful fountain of the mosque of Mohammad Ali in Cairo. Photo taken in 1888 (Griffith Institute, Simpson Photograph Collection). نافورة جامع محمد من مجموعة الفوتوغرافية علي - القاهرة في عام ١٨٨٨.​

To mark the day in 1838 that Charles Wheatstone presented his stereoscope to the Royal Society, the Griffith Institute joins the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy in celebrating the fourth International Stereoscopy Day.

We are lucky to have Sara Aly joining us & working hard researching the Clère collection (archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/cl...). Success stories from her work include locating statues & other unidentified objects discussed in Clère's notes which are now part of international museum collections!

We are delighted to share the exciting news that Lara Bampfield has joined our team as the Research Assistant for our new Tutankhamun project which aims to produce the first spatial archive in Egyptology!

Happy 151st Birthday to Howard Carter, born on this day in 1874! To mark the occasion this year, we are sharing Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent', which is said to have hung above his desk in his house, 'Carter Castle II', at Thebes.

Some recent excitement in the archive - Nick from the Bodleian joined us to take new images of some of our fantastic Carter drawings and watercolours! Thank you to Nick for his work, and we can't wait to see the results!