Howard Carter’s archive on Tutankhamun to go online
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One of the most prized collections of the Griffith Institute – arguably the best Egyptology library in the world, incorporates the notes, photographs and diaries of the English archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun’s resting place in 1922.
Now, this remarkable archive of pictures and notes can be viewed online.
The only intact pharaoh’s tomb ever discovered, it contained such an array of treasures that it took Carter 10 years to catalogue them all. Yet despite the immense significance of the discovery, the majority of Carter’s findings have never been published, and many questions surrounding the tomb remain unanswered.
A total of 5,398 objects were found in the tomb, covering every aspect of ancient Egyptian life, from weapons and chariots to musical instruments, clothes, cosmetics and a treasured lock of the royal grandmother’s hair. A few, like Tutankhamun’s gold burial mask, are instantly recognisable, but many are not well known, even to experts.
By making all of Carter’s notes available online, the public will have access to the full extent of the discovery – and spur Egyptologists into finishing the job of studying the tomb’s contents.
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