The Griffith Institute, established in 1939 as the Centre for Egyptology in Oxford, had the Beta Launch of their new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive in November 2025. It’s been the main focus of their work over the last year and features all records created during the 1925 unwrapping and examination of Tutankhamun’s mummified body.
Over the next two years, they hope to make the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available through this online resource.
The website includes a section on ‘Stories‘ where they upload articles which discuss new discoveries in the archive or deep dives into a particular object and its record, and the latest story will be very interesting for stereoscopy and Egyptology enthusiasts alike.
You may remember, back in 2023, the Griffith Institute and the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy collaborated on a very popular 3-D presentation ‘Egypt in the Stereoscope: From Francis Frith to Harry Burton‘ at the Weston Library, University of Oxford. Yesterday’s story on the Tutkanhamun Spatial Archive features the stereoscopic images the Griffith Institute’s Jennifer Navratil and Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy’s Denis Pellerin found amongst Harry Burton’s photographs of the contents of the tomb, including the background story to the collaboration, and turning the images into stereoscopic pairs. Jennifer was interviewed by Lara Bampfield, who wrote the article, and reading it is highly recommended:
We’ve been following the Griffith Institute’s progress on the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive and are so excited and happy for them to see this project go from strength to strength. Congratulations to the team!
Title image: Photographs by Harry Burton, reproduced with permission of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, edited by Denis Pellerin.
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