Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation

Supporting documentation made by Howard Carter and members of the excavation team

Burial Chamber with objects in situ, Carter MSS. i.G.31

Howard Carter's notes made in preparation of the complete publication of the tomb.

Maps, plans and drawings of the tomb of Tutankhamun (part of Carter MSS. i.G, complete list for this group see below).

Alfred Lucas's notes on conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Carter's account of the examination of Tutankhamun's mummy by Dr D. Derry and Dr Saleh Bey Hamdi, and his drawings of items found on it.

A Gallery of drawings made by Carter during the examination of Tutankhamun's mummy.

Howard Carter's copies of A. H. Gardiner's recordings of inscriptions on some objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Carter's Notebook TAA i.2.7.

Notes on various aspects of the tomb and its contents, filed with object cards:

• Notes on the robberies, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Lord Carnarvon.
• Notes on the Annexe, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and A. H. Gardiner.
• Notes and memoranda, by Alfred Lucas.
• Notes on the contents of baskets, by Howard Carter.
• Note on a wooden docket inscribed in hieratic, by A. H. Gardiner.
• Two letters from Howard Carter to A. H. Gardiner.

Photograph galleries:

• Harry Burton's photographs showing work in Tutankhamun's tomb (see also the main Burton photograph gallery).
• Ten albums of photographs, mostly of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, assembled for Howard Carter almost certainly by Harry Burton himself (see also the main Burton photograph gallery).
• Harry Burton's photographs showing general views of the Valley of the Kings.
• Harry Burton's photographs showing the exterior of Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Harry Burton's photographs of the painted wall decoration in the burial chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Miscellaneous photographs, most of them probably by Harry Burton.
• Photographs by anonymous photographers showing scenes outside the tomb.
• John Ross's colour photographs of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Discovering Tutankhamun in colour (a selection of Harry Burton's photographs colourised by Dynamichrome).

Miscellaneous:

• Howard Carter's collection of lantern slides based on Harry Burton's photographs.
• Detailed lists of all records connected with Tutankhamun's tomb and Howard Carter in the Archive of the Griffith Institute.
• Griffith Institute's publications concerning the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Howard Carter's maps and plans, Carter MSS. i.G, a complete list of maps and plans made by Carter including those for the tomb of Tutankhamun (see above).
• Miscellaneous papers, Carter MSS. vi-viii including autobiographical notes, paintings, drawings, and portraits.
• An incomplete draft of the lecture on La tumba de Tut.ankh.Amen. La sepultura del rey y la cripta interior, given by Howard Carter in Madrid in 1928.
• Online publication of notes, drawings and photographs of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun, made by Walter Segal.
• Some thoughts inspired by a current exhibition: 'Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Treasures' (Brno, October 16, 2008 - March 15, 2009, by Jaromir Malek).
• An audio podcast recording of the lecture on Howard Carter's excavation records of the tomb of Tutankhamun, given by Jaromir Malek at the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend on 19 September 2008, is now available from http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/. Click on 'Central Administration', Alumni Weekend 2008 and 'show media items'.

Related documentation

• The Search for Tutankhamun's tomb Howard Carter's work in the Valley of the Kings 1915-1922.

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