Many congratulations to James Ivory on his Oscar for his screen play 'Call Me by Your Name' (here seen writing in our visitors' book)!

‘I was here...’ a great article on Liz Frood’s wonderful work on graffiti in the Temple of Karnak http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/arts-blog/artistic-licence-i-was-here%E2%80%A6-ancient-egypt

Say it with (ancient Egyptian) flowers! A bouquet of images from all of us to all of you on #ValentinesDay

This week our two History of Art interns, Beatrice & Mia, found these interesting images within the Bonomi collection they are cataloguing. Bonomi painted over a print of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, replacing it with a large, female statue of Britannia of which he made several sketches. We’re adding new images to our online catalogue every week so keep an eye out for more unusual pictures - http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/

An update from our Artefacts of Excavation colleagues - parts of the site are now available in Arabic; congratulations Alice, Heba, Emma et al, it’s a wonderful achievement! http://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/ https://twitter.com/excavatedegypt/status/959049563914031104

In case you haven’t noticed this on our websites: this weekend, due to essential maintenance, all GI websites (Archive, TopBib, OEB and Artifacts of Excavation) will be offline while electrical work is carried out. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause, but expect normal service to be resumed by Monday morning at the very latest. As a distraction, how many people can you count in this Opet Festival scene, sketched by Howard Carter in Luxor Temple? We’re not sure yet, but it gives us something to do while we wait for the servers to be turned on again...

Oxford feels very festive today and Alan Gardiner’s old house in Iffley is looking rather different than when we visited on a warm, sunny day in September!

Another scholarship to apply for, this time the Barns studentship at Queen’s College... https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/scholarships

Opportunities at Oxford, come and join us! http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BGC548/lady-wallis-budge-junior-research-fellowship-in-egyptology/ https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/scholarships/ancient-documents

From Howard Carter’s journal #onthis day in 1922: ‘Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. In which, after making preliminary notes, we made a tiny breach in the top left hand corner to see what was beyond. Darkness and the iron testing rod told us that there was empty space… Candles were procured - the all important Tell-Tale for foul gases when opening an ancient subterranean excavation - I widened the breach and by means of the candle looked in… It was sometime before one could see, the hot air escaping caused the candle to flicker, but as soon as one's eyes became accustomed to the glimmer of light the interior of the chamber gradually loomed before one, with its strange and wonderful medley of extraordinary and beautiful objects heaped upon one another. There was naturally short suspense for those present who could not see, when Lord Carnarvon said to me 'Can you see anything'. I replied to him Yes, it is wonderful…’ Read more here: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/discoveringTut/journals-and-diaries/

👀egyptologists exploring 👀 #uniq2017

Egyptologists in the office. #office #egyptology #egyptologist #egypt #friday #work

The best day I've had in Oxford since I arrived. Welcome back Liz – we love you so very much.

Doing some research in the Griffith Institute, with a handmade photo album of photographs of tombs at Deir el-Medina. #research #egyptology #archive #oxford #university #library #bookstagram

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Doing some research in the Griffith Institute, with a handmade photo album of photographs of tombs at Deir el-Medina. #research #egyptology #archive #oxford #university #library #bookstagram