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Tutankhamun
Search Harry Burton's excavation photographs
Horeau paintings
Hector Horeau's watercolours of Egypt made in 1838
Petrie journals
Read Petrie's journal for 1880-1881
The Griffith Institute - University of Oxford
The Griffith Institute has been at the heart of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford for over seventy years.
It is home to two major research projects, the Topographical Bibliography (Porter & Moss) and the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB). The Griffith Institute also houses an archive of 'wonderful things' containing the collective memory and life work of some of Egyptology's greatest scholars, including its founder Francis Llewellyn Griffith, as well as Sir Alan Gardiner and Jaroslav Černý. Perhaps the most famous are the records of Howard Carter whose name is synonymous with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. The Griffith Institute provides vital resources for the study of the history and culture of ancient Egypt and the Near East, which may be accessed directly, or online.
Griffith latest news
9 May - Howard Carter's Birthday
To celebrate Howard Carter's birthday on this 9 May, unpublished drawings made by Carter of the Festival Procession of Opet at Luxor Temple will go online for the first time.
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Visit the Griffith Institute's Facebook page for the latest news, project updates and information on Egyptological events in and around Oxford. View highlights from the Griffith Institute Archive, including the watercolours of George Alexander Hoskins, a corpus of hieroglyphic signs compiled by Rosalind Paget and Annie Pirie, and Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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