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Working with the Tutankhamun archive often involves returning to material that has been studied for decades and asking what else it might still contain. For Jenni Navratil, digital imager at the Griffith Institute, this process begins with the image itself: how it was made, how it can be viewed, and what different viewing methods can reveal.

In an aged “Newspaper Cuttings” album, compiled by the great Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner, one unexpectedly finds two envelopes neatly attached to a page, seemingly at odds with the rest of the material. A tantalising clue to their contents are the adjacent clippings announcing the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, and when the first envelope contents are lifted out and unfolded, one is immediately compelled to read further when greeted with ‘Most private’!