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.
Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.
Complete set of three volumes of Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, all first editions, no dust jackets:
Carter, Howard and Mace, A. C. 1923. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 1 [discovery, Antechamber and opening of the Burial chamber]
Carter, Howard 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 2 [Burial chamber, opening the sarcophagus, the state chariots, opening of the three coffins and examination of Tutankhamun's mummy]
Carter, Howard 1933. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 3 [Treasury and Annexe]
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".
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.
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.
Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs
Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
Glass and film negatives.
Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.