An archive of wondrous things
An interesting article in today’s Observer tells the story of a soon-to-be-complete online archive of wondrous things – the notes, photographs and diaries of archaeologist Howard Carter’s excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb. From the Observer article This is the Griffith Institute – arguably the best Egyptology library in the world. One of its most prized collections incorporates the notes, photographs and diaries of the English archaeologist Howard Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun’s resting place in 1922. The only intact pharaoh’s tomb ever discovered, it …