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

• Letter to Alfred Lucas from Dr W. F. Hume, Geological Survey of Egypt, on specimens of calcite from Tutankhamun's tomb sent by Lucas.

Tutankhamun documentation: Nina de Garis Davies' notes on boxes (21) and (540)+(551).

• Nina de Garis Davies's manuscript notes on the decoration of two boxes:
  • Carter object (21), the "Painted Box" with battle and hunting scenes.
  • Carter objects (540)+(551), with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden on the lid.
• Includes two small watercolour sketches and a line drawing, all created by Davies.
• This material was created in January and February 1951 when Davies visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Davies's paintings of box (21) were subsequently published. See below for details.

Chair (351). Howard Carter's collected notes for intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's typescript description of chair (351).
• 3 pages.
• Carbon copies of originals filed with object cards for (351), 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'.

Tutankhamun excavation - Harry Burton's original contact prints made from the original glass plate negatives

• Set of original photographic prints.
• Most were created by Harry Burton.
• Some prints were made in the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.

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.

Material other than excavation records.

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

• 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.

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

• Copies of notes and photographs for boxes from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The measurements of the boxes, etc., were copied from the original Tutankhamun Archive documentation by A. H. Gardiner for Myrtle Broome.

• 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.

• Professor H. Beinlich's photographs and his transcription of its texts
• Innermost coffin (255) of Tutankhamun, gold, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60671.
• TAA ii.14.1-56 (photos), 57 (transcriptions).

• Photograph showing Howard Carter (left) and an Egyptian team member carrying one side of the hippopotamus couch (137) out of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Negative made from an original photograph.
• Original photograph, photographer not known. Taken in early 1923.
• Labelled: ‘At the Luxor Tomb. At the Exit from the tomb. Mr. H. Carter helping to carry out a section of one of the couches’.

• Fourteen postcards, many feature Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Some were produced by Lehnert & Landrock.
• Others produced by Bruce Co., London.
• Showing various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Original postcard features Burton photograph KV79.
• Postcard caption: 003 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES ENTRANCE TO TOMB
• View of the modern enclosure wall protecting the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Digital image.
• The original negative was made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 018 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES THE TUTELARY GODDESS SELKIT
• Original postcard features Burton photograph P1550.
• Statue of the goddess Selkis from Tutankhamun's canopic shrine (266), gilded wood, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60686.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
• Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
• Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

Colour photograph of Tutankhamun's mask, taken by Miss J. E. Shepherd in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in 1990.

A set of lithographs made for the Tutankhamun exhibition held in the British Museum, London, in 1972.

• Set of contact prints made from The Times Tutankhamun photographs.
• Most of the photographs were taken by The Times photographer.
• There are also a significant number of copies of Harry Burton's photographs within this group.
• Many of the contact prints are made from 35mm film, as well as a variety of larger prints.

Restricted access file.

• 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.