Pretty cool news from the Griffith Institute at Oxford, a Mecca for Egyptology: They have digitized all of Howard Carter’s handwritten notes (3500 handwritten cards) taken about King Tut’s tomb and put them online. The online database also includes over 1000 photos.
I naturally wanted to find Carter’s notes about the two fetuses (er … alien babies) in Tut’s tomb. I had to email the Institute since I couldn’t find the stuff right away (wrong key words). Here is the Institute’s gracious and speedy response for you all — and click on the link to read Carter’s notes.1
Dear Dr Heiser,
Thank you for your email and the congratulations!
Our database is constructed around Howard Carter’s ‘hand list’ of
objects as an attempt to standardise names and descriptions;
consequently items are not always described in the terminology we use
today. If you search for ‘child’ or ‘mummy’ you will find the
information you’re looking for. The foetuses did not have their own
sarcophagi, only small coffins, inside a large box. If you’d rather
search on the object numbers, use Carter number 317 here:
http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/300-349.html to find
information on the box, the coffins (317a & b) and the mummys (317 a(2)
& b(2)).If you have any other queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Best wishes
XXXXXXX
Griffith Institute
University of Oxford
So, Howard missed the alien presence in Tut’t tomb. What a bummer.
- I should mention in one he has a question mark at the description of the infant child — but he wasn’t debating if it was an alien — other cards have him clearly referring to the contents as a child — his question was about whether it died naturally. ↩
