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A Directory of Archives useful for history of Archaeology Research.
For the 100th anniversary of excavations in Mycenae, which began in 1920, Cambridge Digital Library is hosting the digitised archive of the historic British School at Athens led excavations at the site between the 1920s and the 1950s.
Scope: photographs, drawings, notebooks, plans, excavation records Digital Mycenae webpage: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/digitalmycenae Mycenae Archive via Cambridge Library Online: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/mycenae The Faculty of Arts at Cairo University is digitising some of their archive, including the reports (in Arabic) of Selim Hassan, a noted Egyptian Egyptologist working at Giza and Professor of Egyptology at the University in the early-mid 20th Century.
Access the reports here. Transcribed diaries and field reports from 1930s excavations at Antioch, conducted by the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The archive relating to these excavations also includes photographs and films, find cards, drawings, correspondence.
Access the transcribed reports and diaries here. Browse document sets here. Project website: vrc.princeton.edu/researchphotographs/s/antioch/page/introduction Further Reading Saliou, Catherine. Historie Urbaine de l'Orient romain tardif.[online] Harvard University Library has digitised and made openly available archives relating to the Harvard Expedition to Samaria, led by American archaeologist George Andrew Reisner, between 1908 and 1910. The archives include Reisner's diaries from the period, and diaries from a few of his colleagues, including Gottlieb Schumacher,
David Gordon Lyon, and Clarence Stanley Fisher. Scope: diaries, photographs, expedition admin documents Reisner diaries 1909-10 Fisher journal 1908 Lyon diary 1908-11 Schumacher diary 1908 Schumacher Report 1908 Expedition summary 1909 Harvard expedition to Samaria notebook 1910 Antiquities Register Accounts Book Photographs list Expedition correspondence 1901-9 Further Reading AWOL, 2014. Harvard Expedition to Samaria 1908-10. Ancient World Online. This archive was housed in a sealed room in the site of Abydos, in Egypt, and discovered in 2013. Records relate to the Egyptian Antiquities Service between the 1840s and the 1960s, a critical period for archaeology in Egypt. Importantly, this archive reflects to the work of Egyptian inspectors and guards in the Egyptian Antiquities Service during this period. The project is currently conserving and cataloguing the archive, and preparing a searchable database of the collection.
Twitter: @AbydosArchive Blog: abydosarchive.org/ Further Reading: Shalaby, N., Abu El-Azm, H., Damarany, A., Kaiser, J., Abdallah, H.S., Abu El-Yazid, M., Abd El-Raziq, Y., Baker, F., Hashesh, Z., Ibrahim, W., Minor, E., Regelein, R. and Tarek, A. 2018. The Lost Papers: Rewriting the Narrative of Early Egyptology with the Abydos Temple Paper Archive. ARCE Bulletin [Online]: https://www.arce.org/abydos-paper-archive Abydos Temple Paper Archive Project. Egypt Exploration Society website: www.ees.ac.uk/atpa Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens continues to be an integral part of archaeological research in Greece, along with the other 'foreign' schools in Athens. The ASCSA has extensive archival collections, including the personal papers of staff and students, excavation records, administrative history records, and photographs.
Website: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ASCSAthens Archive webpage: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/personal-papers-and-archives Downloadable annual reports (from 1881): https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/ascsa-annual-reports Explore the history of the School through "From the Archivist's Notebook" the blog of School archivist Natalia Vogiekoff-Brogan. The Historic Environment Image Resource (HEIR) project at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford is digitising historic lantern slides, dating from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, in various collections in the University. Photographs cover a wide geographical area. An app developed in conjunction with the digitisation project enables users to upload their own current photographs of the sites represented in the lantern slides, and help HEIR archivists to create keywords for the digitised images.
Image database: http://heir.arch.ox.ac.uk Project blog: https://heiroxford.wordpress.com/ Twitter: @HeirOxford Founded in 1879, the Hellenic Society continues to support research in the classical world. With subscriptions, it helped to finance travels and explorations into Greece and Asia Minor in the 1880s and provided grants for some of the early British School at Athens students.
The Society has made some of its archive relating to its founder George Macmillan, and one of the archaeologists it first supported, William Mitchell Ramsay, available online. The Society also holds the photographic collection of WJ Stillman, comprising historic images of Greece. Twitter: @Hellenic_Soc Website: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/ Digital Collections: https://www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/about-us/george-a-macmillan-lettres/ Further Reading: Doyle, Richella. 2009. The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Archive of George A. Macmillan's Personal Papers. Archaeological Reports 56: 203-218. Held in the University of Reading's Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. Records relate to the history of excavations mainly in Greece in the early 20th century. Includes correspondence to the Museum's founders, Percy Ure and Annie Ure, from various Greek archaeologists.
More details on the Museum's holdings here. Scope of collections: correspondence, letters, diaries, research notes and journals, excavation records, photographs, maps, museum records. Email: [email protected] Research blog: https://research.reading.ac.uk/curiosi/ure-routes/ Website: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/ Archive webpage: https://collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/explore/collections-overview/archives/ Twitter: @UreMuseum Covering the work of the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Boston excavations at Giza in the early 20th century. The lives of American archaeologist George Andrew Reisner (1867-1942), his wife Mary Reisner and daughter Mary B. Reisner and their co-workers on site are also represented. The archive is keyword-searchable.
Scope of Collections: Photographs, maps, documents Website: www.gizapyramids.org Email: [email protected] |
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