Projects currently undertaken by the Griffith Institute

• Some 400 drawings and watercolours made by G. A. Hoskins in 1832-3 and 1860-1 have been scanned by Jenni Navratil, assisted by Hana Navrátilová. This work has been funded by ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East). Ana Jimenez has now begun preparing a detailed catalogue fo this material.
• All excavation records concerning the tomb of Tutankhamun are being systematically checked to ensure the completeness of our web presentation. This is being done by Elizabeth Fleming, Alison Hobby and our student volunteer, Daniel Sichan. Some additional transcripts are being prepared by Nicola Harrington and additional scans are being made by Jenni Navratil.
• Our collection of watercolours and drawings is being catalogued by John Wyatt and Lee Young. Jenni Navratil has now started scanning and photographing this material.
• Some 1,000 tracings made by Norman and Nina de Garis Davies in various Theban tombs have been digitally photographed by Jenni Navratil, assisted by Hana Navrátilová. Jenni Navratil is now editing the images for a web presentation. The work is being coordinated by Elizabeth Fleming. Some material is already online.
• Flinders Petrie's "Journals" are currently being scanned by Jenni Navratil, transcribed by Cat Warsi and Antonia Edwards, and edited by Jaromir Malek and Elizabeth Fleming. The first instalments of the "journals" for 1880-1881 and 1881-1882 are now online.
• ISAD(G) forms which provide basic information on all material in the Archive are being completed by Alison Hobby, Elizabeth Fleming and Jaromir Malek.
• Several hundred photographs taken by W. M. Flinders Petrie in Egypt between 1887 and 1890 will be made available online in a joint project of the Griffith Institute and The Friends of the Petrie Museum. The metadata are being edited by Luigi Prada.
• The last batch of Howard Carter's notes made for the final publication of Tutankhamun's tomb and Alfred Lucas's notes on conservation of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun has been transcribed by Cat Warsi and is being edited for online publication by Jaromir Malek.
• Additional entries for the corpus of portraits and handwriting samples of Egyptologists are being prepared by Leire Olabarria and Edward Love.
• A list of our Archive correspondence is being compiled by Gerda Mamott.

Recently completed projects

• An album of Howard Carter's watercolours of birds and animals, has been digitally photographed by Jenni Navratil, and the paintings described by John Wyatt and Jiŕí Janák.
• 'Iconic images from the tomb of Tutankhamun', a display of twenty selected photographs by Harry Burton, was shown in Art (formerly Green's) Cafe, 14 Bonn Square, Oxford, a popular students' meeting place, between March 3 and May 4, 2011.
• Harry Burton's photographic albums have been catalogued and interleaved by Kerry Webb.
• Scans of Howard Carter's diaries and journals have been made by Hana Navrátilová, with the financial support of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society. Arthur Mace's diaries have been scanned by Jenni Navratil. Ana I. Jimenez has edited them for addition to online transcripts.
• Some 2,000 photographs of Egypt and Sudan taken by Reginald St. Alban Heathcote between 1922 and 1933 have been made available online. The pdf files were prepared by Jenni Navratil.
• Hector Horeau's watercolours made in Egypt in 1838 can now be consulted online. The online publication has been prepared by Luigi Prada, together with Jenni Navratil, Alison Hobby, Elizabeth Fleming and Jaromir Malek.
• Letters exchanged between Howard Carter and P. E. Newberry have been scanned by Jenni Navratil.
• Jaromir Malek has given the following lectures, most of them connected with the Griffith Institute's Archive or the tomb of Tutankhamun:
  • 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' The distribution of objects in the tomb of Tutankhamun. (Coventry, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, April 28, 2011)
  • Howard Carter: the rebel who found a cause. (Dublin, April 14, 2011)
  • Howard Carter: a passion for ancient Egypt. (Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, March 7, 2011)
  • 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.' The distribution of objects in the tomb of Tutankhamun. (Cologne, January 26, 2011)
  • Howard Carter's excavation records of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Madrid, December 2, 2010)
  • Their rules and ours. Egyptian art in the tomb of Tutankhamun (Manchester Ancient Egypt Society, November 8, 2010)
  • Egyptian art: Unconventional conventions (Three Counties Ancient History Society, Upton Snodsbury, October 20, 2010)
  • Das Ägypten das wir verloren haben (Vienna, Egypt and Austria VII conference, September 21, 2010)
  • An ace archive with quite a nice institute attached. The Archive of the Griffith Institute in Oxford (Ancient World Tours Conference, London, University College, August 21, 2010)
  • What makes Egyptian art special? (Horsham, Sussex Ancient Egypt Society, June 19, 2010)
  • "It's the economy, stupid!" How it worked in the Old Kingdom (Kings and Pyramids in Old Kingdom Egypt, Egyptology Study Day, Birkbeck College, London, June 12, 2010)
  • Egyptology - a subject without a history (Egypt Exploration Society Study Day, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, June 12, 2010)
  • The tomb of Tutankhamun: Some unresolved problems (Budapest, February 1, 2010).
  • The tomb of Tutankhamun: Some unresolved problems (Hannover, January 20, 2010).
  • The tomb of Tutankhamun: Some unresolved problems (Hamburg, January 19, 2010).
  • The tomb of Tutankhamun: Some unresolved problems (Barcelona, September 15, 2009).
  • Howard Carter's excavation records of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Munich, May 26, 2009)
  • A city on the move: Egypt's capital in the Old Kingdom. (Glanville Memorial Lecture, Cambridge, May 23, 2009)
  • Egyptian art. A series of eight lectures. (Charles University, Prague, May 2009)
  • A home for Egyptology in Oxford ('Perspectives on Ancient Egypt' seminar, Brighton, April 23, 2009)
  • Howard Carterův objev hrobky krále Tutanchamuna. (Brno, January 23, 2009)
  • Equipped for Eternity: The tomb of Tutankhamun. (Plymouth, Plymouth and District Egyptology Society, December 6, 2008)
  • What makes Egyptian art special? (Taunton, Egyptian Society Taunton, November 22, 2008)
  • The tomb of Tutankhamun: Some unresolved problems (Southampton, Southampton Ancient Egypt Society, November 15, 2008)
  • Howard Carter's excavation records of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Oxford, Second OU Alumni weekend, The Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, Said Business School, September 19, 2008). An audio podcast recording of the lecture is available from http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/. Click on 'Central Administration', Alumni Weekend 2008, and 'show media items'.
  • The Amarna Period at Memphis. (Melbourne, August 17, 2008)
  • Large as well as small, but all beautifully formed. The monuments of Memphis so far. (Sydney, August 16, 2008)
  • The historical footprint of Memphis. (Sydney, August 15, 2008)
  • Howard Carter's work in the tomb of Tutankhamun. (The Oxford Arts Society Associates, Ashmolean Museum, May 12, 2008)
  • There is order in this chaos. The distribution of objects in the tomb of Tutankhamun (Akhenaten and his son Tutankhamen, Egyptology Study Day, Birkbeck College, London, March 15, 2008)
  • Ten Years of Hard Labour: The recording of Tutankhamun's tomb by Carter & Co. (The Stevenson Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre, The British Museum, January 31, 2008)

Organized visits to the Archive

• Ten students and three supervisors from University of Oxford UNIQ Summer School, 12 July, 2011.
• Three curators from the Islamic Museum in Cairo, the Luxor Museum and the Alexandria National Museum, 29 June, 2011.
• Nine Oxford University Egyptology students, 23 February, 2011.
• Twenty-three members of Mehen (Centre for the Study of Ancient Egypt), The Netherlands, 16 February, 2011.
• Four members of the privileged access group, 28 January, 2011.
• Eleven MA in Egyptology students from Birkbeck College, London, led by Rosalind Janssen, 10 December, 2010.
• Nineteen members of the Sussex Egyptology Society, 16 October, 2010.
• A group of five museum curators from Egypt and Sudan, three invited guests from Spain and two graduate students, 7 July, 2010.
• Twenty-eight members of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society, 11 June, 2010.
• Fourteen participants in the ACCES seminar were shown procedures for the scanning and digital photography of archive items developed in the Griffith Institute, 15 March, 2010.
• A group of nine students led by Charlotte Booth, 5 December, 2009.
• A group of eight, mostly Egyptology students from the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 20 October, 2009.
• A group of six museum curators and SCA inspectors from Egypt and Sudan, 24 June, 2009.
• Eight members of the Reading University's School of Continuing Education, 7 March, 2009.
• Eight Egyptology students from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 2 December, 2008.
• Eleven students from the Faculty of Oriental Studies and members of the Sackler Library staff, 23 October, 2008.
• Twenty-one members of The Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (East Midlands), 20 September, 2008.
• Thirteen members of the Association for the Study of Egypt and the Near East, 4 July, 2008.
• A group of members of Essex Egyptology Society, etc., led by Charlotte Booth, 28 June, 2008.
• A group of curators from Egyptian museums, 25 June, 2008.
• A group of ten students, aged between twelve and fifteen, and two of their teachers, from Pemberton College, Wigan, 18 March, 2008.
• Fifteen members of the Danish Egyptological Society, 14 March 2008.
• A group of twelve Oxford Egyptology students, 13 February 2008.

Projects at least partly based on the material in our Archive but not undertaken by the Griffith Institute

• The papers of B. Gunn in the Archive of the Griffith Institute contain information, variously complete, on some 350 unpublished or partly published monuments of all dates, from the late Old Kingdom to Coptic, found by C.M. Firth near the pyramid of Teti at Saqqara in the 1920s. Some, though not all, are listed in volume iii of the Topographical Bibliography.This material is currently being prepared for publication by Jaromir Malek and Diana Magee. For the monuments of the New Kingdom see J. Malek, "New Kingdom personnel in Teti Pyramid Cemeteries III: a preliminary list", in The New Kingdom Memphis Newsletter 2 (September 1989), 4-7.
• Howard Carter's unpublished Biographical Sketches have been transcribed by Sue Hutchison and Charlotte Booth and are being edited for publication by Jaromir Malek, assisted by Elizabeth Fleming.
• Kate Bradbury's journals from the American trip undertaken with Amelia Edwards are being prepared for publication by Dr Brenda Moon.
• W. Spiegelberg's squeezes made in TT 11, of Djehuti, of the reigns of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, will be published by the Spanish archaeological mission led by Dr José Galán.

Recently completed projects at least partly based on the material in our Archive but not undertaken by the Griffith Institute

• Angelika Lohwasser's The Kushite Cemetery of Sanam (London: Golden House Publications, 2010) uses extensively F. Ll. Griffith's records in our Archive.
• Vignette from the Brocklehurst Book of the Dead papyrus of Djeptahefankh, from a drawing in the papers of Amelia B. Edwards, has been published by Cynthia Shekholeslami in The Realm of the Pharaohs. Essays in Honor of Tohfa Handoussa, vol. i, ed. by Zahi A. Hawass, Khaled A. Daoud and Sawsan Abd el-Fattah.
• An exhibition Hrobka krale Tutanchamona (The Tomb of Tutankhamun), based on photographs taken by Harry Burton in the Archive of the Griffith Institute, was staged in the Museum of Vysocina Region in Havlíckuv Brod (Czech Republic) between July 8 and September 24, 2008. It was organized with the help of Jaromir Malek and the financial support of the Bloomsbury Academy.
• B. Gunn's copies of New-Kingdom graffiti in the Step Pyramid complex have now been published by Hana Navrátilová, of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague, in her book on The Visitors' Graffiti of Dynasties XVIII and XIX in Abusir and Northern Saqqara, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology - Set Out, 2007.
• Lars Schreiber Pedersen's article on H. O. Lange, quoting information from the papers of Sir A. H. Gardiner, has appeared in Fund og Forskning 46.

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