Folder titled 'Predynastic Kings names Palermo and Cairo fragments', containing material relating to Predynastic Egypt.

Includes:

• Drafts on the history of Predynastic Egypt

• Notes on 'paleolithic implants' in Egypt

• Typed notes on the 'Predynastic Population'

• Handwritten notes on flints

• One page of a handwritten draft and notes on the Chalcolithic Period

• Notes on Predynastic pottery

• Tracings of Predynastic pottery depicting boats

• One page of a handwritten draft titled 'Some Cults of Prehistoric Egypt'

• Three pages of a handwritten draft on cult insignia

• Draft letter to Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards on research activity, 30 December 1947

Folder titled 'Deforestation : Dessication' containing research notes on deforestation, dessication and climate changes in Egypt.

Includes

• Notes on the Libyan Desert or Sahara including on deforestation

• Notes in preparation for a lecture titled 'Taming the land and interpretation of nature'

• Notes on articles by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

• Notes on deforestation

• Notes on the former fertility of Egypt

• Newspaper cutting on soil erosion in Africa by Elspeth Huxley from The Times, 10 June 1937

• Notes on the geology of Egypt

• Typed lecture notes on deforestation, flora and fauna in Egypt

• Notes on desiccation or drying up of lakes and rivers

• Typed draft titled 'Deforestation of Mediterranean Lands'

• Notes on deserts

Diary titled by Newberry 'The Theban Necropolis - Excavations 1898-1899 - Account of Men's wages for the Marquis of Northampton'.

Front section contains lists of men, the days worked and their wages.

On the front page of the diary Newberry has written 'Small service is true service whilst it lasts - of friends however humble scorn not one - The daisy by the shadow that it casts - Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun' and below 'If by such rose we see - A thorn there grows - Strive that no thorn shall be - Without its rose'.

Diary contains a brief daily log of activities and details of payments made, 1 January 1899 to 9 April 1899.

This item has been digitised and transcribed.

Glass negative of Plate III, 8 of Bala’izah.

Related documentation (by Brenda Moon):

1. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mrs Patricia Martin (19 March 1982)
2. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mrs Patricia Martin (12 April 1982)
3. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (27 May 1998)
4. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (20 May 1999)
5. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (9 December 2006)
6. "Amelia Edwards and Egypt. Paper read to the second Conference on Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, Oxford, 11 July 1997", by Brenda Moon (printed copy)
7. "Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane and Egypt", by Brenda Moon (printed copy)

Journal covering the period from 4 September 1873 to 24 March 1874.
Dark red cover, 17.5 x 11.5 x 2 cm, 194 pages.

Certificate:

1. Marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879) [photocopy of a certified copy requested by Brenda Moon in 1999]

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

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 (typescript)

• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923
• Typescript

Material relating to the "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference", held in Luxor, Egypt, between 4-6 November 2022.

1. Booklet with information on schedule and speakers.
2. Menu of the Gala Dinner at the Luxor Temple on 4 November 2022.

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

Postcards referencing the discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Miscellaneous publications referencing the discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Comic books referencing the discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Miscellaneous photographs referencing the discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Media-related material referencing the discovery, excavation and clearance of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Marketing trade cards referencing the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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

Commercially produced printed sheet music.

Tutankhamun-related jewellery.

Tutankhamun-related memorabilia.

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

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.

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

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.

• Photographic prints:
  1. 'The canopic chest of alabaster, Tutankhamen's tomb', made from Harry Burton negative in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [= Burton photograph P1153].
  2. 'The canopic chest opened, showing portrait busts of Tutankhamen', made from Harry Burton negative in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [= Burton photograph P1158].
  3. 'Thebes – Tut Ankh Amen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings', Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo, no. 1740.