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Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, envelope.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 1.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 2.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, envelope.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 1.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 2.
Letter from Lord Carnarvon to Sir Alan H. Gardiner including his account of the discovery, page 3.
Letter from Sir Alan H. Gardiner to his wife on February 23, 1923, page 9 (following Gardiner's original numbering for both letters dating to 17 February and 23 February 1923).
Since 2019, the Griffith Institute has collaborated with the University of St Andrews through the St Andrews Research Internship Scheme (StARIS), a programme designed to give undergraduate students sustained, hands on experience of academic research. One outcome of this collaboration has been the creation of a new 3D digital model of Tutankhamun’s funerary mask, produced entirely from the original photographic negatives taken by the expedition photographer Harry Burton during the excavation of the tomb in the 1920s.
This project represents, to our knowledge, the first attempt to generate a three-dimensional model directly from Burton’s original negatives, transforming early twentieth century excavation photography into a form suitable for modern digital analysis, preservation and visualisation.
Click here for the model
The story of the unwrapping of the young king.
Letter from Sir Alan H. Gardiner to his wife regarding the health of Lord Carnarvon, page 1.