Tutankhamun Excavation. Howard Carter's notes on various subjects.

• i. General note on tomb robbery.
• ii. Jewellery. References to pectoral (261P(2)), docket from box (267), etc.
• iii. Three pages of manuscript notes on 'The last and final season's work in the Tomb of Tutankhamun', including references to the sarcophagus, shrines, etc.
• iv. A note on the contents of rooms and disturbance by ancient robbers.
• v. Two handwritten notes concerning tomb plan development in the New Kingdom.

Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

• Photographs of six cubit rods from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• All rods are made of wood.
• Carter object numbers:
  • (50dd'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61315.
  • (50dd''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61316.
  • (50ee'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61317.
  • (50ee''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61318.
  • (50ff'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61319.
  • (50ff''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61320.

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

Documentation and correspondence regarding the planned Tutankhamun publication project by the Griffith Institute.

• 35mm black and white transparencies, made from the drawings on the original set of object cards (TAA i.1.1-620).
• Photographs made from these transparencies were affixed to the duplicate set of object cards to complete the information, see TAA iii.1.1-620.

• Annotated photocopies made from a folder marked 'Friends and Colleagues' from among the papers of J. H. Breasted, in Chicago, Oriental Institute.
• Includes photographs showing:
  • 'Carter appears not young'
  • Transportation of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb to the railway.
  • 'Probably John Hartmen (Austrian photographer) working in Cairo Museum'.
  • J. H. Breasted and A. Gardiner working in the Cairo Museum, etc.

Newspaper and magazine cuttings, mainly from the contemporary press, including The New York Times and The Illustrated London News, related to the finding and excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

A collection of printed media (UK local newspapers) relating to the 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition held at the British Museum, London.

A collection of postal stamps featuring objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, mostly commemorating the 50th anniversary of the tomb's discovery in 1972.
Includes six first-day covers, one issued in Egypt and five issued by UK institutions.

Puzzles and games linked to the discovery, excavation and clearance of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Commercially produced printed sheet music.

Advertising and marketing ephemera referencing the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Ephemera connected with the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition at the British Museum in 1972.

Arthur C. Mace's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1923, recording the first season

• 19 unlined pages
• Manuscript entries

A. C. Mace's account of the opening of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber (manuscript)

• Manuscript
• Written on 2 folded sheets of Cataract Hotel, Assouan (Aswan) headed notepaper
• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923

Bow case 335. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's manuscript list of animals depicted on the bow case, noting the colours of the same.
• Carter's manuscript list of plants represented on the bow case.
• Harry Burton's photographs of the bow case, annotated by Carter.

Chemistry. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• H. J. Plenderleith's typescript report on:
  • i. The pigments contained in the palettes from the toy chest found in the Annexe;
  • ii. The paint used on the Burial chamber walls;
  • iii. The metal tongues from the second shrine;
  • iv. The thickness of gold on shrines (also see Gesso notes);
  • v. On animal skin found with gesso. Plenderleith suggests this is to provide a resilient cushion beneath gold for tooling;
• Typescript for a lecture given in 1926 by H. Bunker on 'Scientific Aspects of Tomb'.

Objects found between the sarcophagus (240) and shrines (207), (237), (238) and (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's report on objects nos. 242 (fan), 250 (djad emblem), 249 (bundle of reeds), 251(rags and chips of wood) , 245 (fan), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 241, 247 (long bows), and 248 (ten arrows).
• ii. Harry Burton's photographs of 242, 245 (fans), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 250 (djad pillar).

Shawabti (ushabti) figures. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's typewritten general notes on shawabtis.
• ii. Carter's manuscript report with transcriptions, and notes, for shawabtis from Tutankhamun's tomb, including lists with shawabtis grouped by type, their object excavation number, material, and the chamber they were found.

Tutankhamun's tomb and tomb plan. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's 12-page annotated typewritten discussion on Tutankhamun's tomb and 18th Dynasty royal tomb types.
• Comparisons with other royal tombs and notes on tomb plans from the Turin Papyrus, with the names for the various parts of the tomb.
• Suggestion as to the identity of the architect of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Weapons. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's manuscript notes on offensive and defensive weapons, their form and use.
• Four pages.

Penelope Fox's notes on furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Perhaps for a planned publication.

Rainbow McLean's photographs of box (21), from the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61467.

• Photographs and colour transparencies of a scale model of the tomb of Tutankhamun, created for a display in Highclere Castle in 1988.
• Model created by Orchard Brothers, Historical model makers.

• P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
• "Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
• Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.

• Two black and white photographic prints:
  • Howard Carter's drawings of harness (from TAA i.3.8).
  • Howard Carter's drawing from object card 333 'portions of the linen housings of the chariot horses' (from TAA i.1.333).
  • Howard Carter's drawing of the second shrine (237) with detail of construction of shrine (from TAA i.3.25).

• 35mm colour transparencies of some objects from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Probably made from plates in Desroches Noblecourt, N. 1963. Tutankhamen [OEB 9997], and Carter, H. The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen [OEB 136412].