Collection TAA - Tutankhamun Archive

24 boxes, 15 albums, 12 packages, 47 maps and drawings, 7 card index drawers, 5 rolls, 2 large folders, approximately 2000 original glass negatives, over 600 lantern slides, and sets of duplicate negatives and photographs.

Part of Howard Carter's estate. Bequeathed to Carter's niece Miss Phyllis Walker in 1939. For other material included within this group, see entries within the catalogue.

Miss Walker donated Carter's excavation records (and Carter MSS) in several groups in 1945, 1946, 1959, and 1972. Other material was acquired at various times, see the catalogue.

Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.

Mostly kept as received and arranged in four groups.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions apart from certain categories listed in the catalogue.

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford, except for those items marked otherwise in the catalogue.

• English

No problems.

Catalogue. Also online (http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4taa.html).

These are the original excavation records. For other and secondary material included here, see the catalogue.

Refer to the catalogue. Digitised copies of almost all Carter's Tutankhamun excavation records exist in the Griffith Institute.

Other Archives:

• The National Archives: authorisation to excavate, letters sent to the Foreign Office requesting access to the tomb of Tutankhamun, crank email, records linked to the contract with The Times, newspaper cuttings, records linked to the 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition in the British Museum, etc.
• Dr D. E. Derry's original notes and reports on Tutankhamun's body in the archive of University College London.
• Approximately 26 botanical samples from the tomb of Tutankhamun and related Carter correspondence in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Group of papers, including handwritten and typed drafts for his publication The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen (1922-1933), drafts for lectures, notes and correspondence, auctioned together with some personal papers, correspondence and objects at Bonhams London on 12 June 2012 (https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20137/lot/39/), some of this material is now in the Peggy Joy Egyptology Library in Michigan, USA [information provided in November 2017], and many other documents (especially correspondence) in a private collection in Boston, USA [information provided in August 2021].

• Carter, Howard and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut-ankh-Amen, 3 volumes (1922-1933) (OEB 136412):
• Volume i (1923): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77344 (discovery of tomb, Antechamber, opening of the Burial chamber);
• Volume ii (1927): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77328 (Burial chamber, examination of Tutankhamun's body and wrappings);
• Volume iii (1933): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77360 (Treasury and Annexe).
• For a list of the Tutankhamun Tomb Series fascicles published by the Griffith Institute, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/publications.html
• See web publication of original excavation records 'Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation': http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/

A typescript of a note found in P. E. Newberry's copy of Howard Carter's Statement, extracted from Newberry's 1938-9 notebook, page 115, is filed with the Carter Tutankhamun Archive accession correspondence:
"Tutankhamun. Information given me by Lucas, 2nd July, 1939.
The cards of the Catalogue were written entirely by Mace during the first two years and after Mace's death Carter took over the work.
Lucas who worked on the antiquities found was paid by the Egyptian Government. Alan Gardiner and myself wrote out many cards and filled in the hieroglyphic inscriptions.
All the photographs were taken by Burton who was paid by the Metrop. Museum of New York.
Calendar told Lucas that Lucas's salary and Burton's salary were included in the £70,000 asked for by Carter and he was paid £36,000 by the Egyptian Government for all the expenses."