Karnak, excavating sphinxes, Egypt
1890s
Photograph
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
LL/52752
1 of 27
Augustus Le Plongeon (with beard) and Chac Mol [sic] statue
1875 (ca)
Cabinet card
10 x 15.6 cm (image) 10.7 x 17.7 cm (mount)
Getty Research Institute
Accession/ID Number: gri_mexico_96_r_137_469
LL/44795
2 of 27
Le roi Toutânkhamon dans son sarcophage, Thebes
1923-1930
Musée de l'Elysée
© Lehnert & Landrock
LL/7931
3 of 27
Anfore e reperti marmorei rinvenuti durante gli scavi del 1868
1868
Albumen print
Location and source information requested
Please supply original source and any inventory numbers.
LL/42296 [Further details available]
4 of 27
Raising the colossal lion at Cnidus
1858, June
Salted paper print
British Library
Copyright © The British Library Board, Add. MS 31980 f.196
LL/39203 [Further details available]
5 of 27
Raising the colossal lion at Cnidus
1862-1863
Lithograph
Sotheby's - Paris
Bibliothèque des ducs de Luynes, Château de Dampierre – Seconde partie, 22-23 October 2013, lot: 471
LL/58312 [Further details available]
6 of 27
1859, 27 April
Albumen print
Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole
LL/36444 [Further details available]
7 of 27
The House of Boulders. Wellcome's headquarters at Jebel Moya. Built largely in order to provide employment for Sudanese who could not employed in the excavations.
1913-1914 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (M0013041)
LL/36788
8 of 27
Jebel Moya site, Sudan; excavation in progress
1913-1914
Gelatin silver print
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (L0021182)
LL/36787
9 of 27
Man standing, holding a stick, in a rock shelter [Arkansas, Small rock shelter near War Eagle- Madison Co. Ark.]
n.d.
Albumen print
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Peabody Number: 2004.29.398
LL/53122
10 of 27
"Gagarin Paleolithic site". Excavation III. Western Wall of Excavation III [Lipetsk region, Zadonsky district, pos. Gagarino]
1929 (ca)
Photograph
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Museum number:MAE I 251-24
LL/100268
11 of 27
[Excavations near the Sphinx]
1853
Salted paper print, from paper negative
22.3 x 30.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 7/8 ins)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.276
LL/40409
12 of 27
Archaeological dig
1890
Kodak 2 print
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/84143 [Further details available]
13 of 27
Excavators at work, Old Corinth, Greece
1906
Stereoview
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ds-12924 (digital file from original)
LL/109543
14 of 27
Smashed statuary of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut as discovered by Metropolitan Museum of Art excavators in an ancient quarry northeast of her temple at Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Luxor.
1926-1927, Winter
Gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art
LL/67548 [Further details available]
15 of 27
Tomb of Tutankhamun [Excavations]
n.d.
Gelatin silver prints, mounted to album page
The Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum
Ten albums of photographs, mostly of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, almost certainly assembled by Harry Burton. TAA i.6.10.23
LL/67547
16 of 27
Mr. Howard Carter's wonderful discovery in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt
[The Tomb of Tutankhamun]
1922
Gelatin silver print
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 14 May 2019, Lot: 114
LL/90534
17 of 27
The mannikin or life-size model of Tutankhamen's bust - Used for trying on his robes - Being carried from the tomb.
[The Tomb of Tutankhamun]
1922-1923
Gelatin silver print
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natrual History, 14 May 2019, Lot: 114
LL/90535
18 of 27
The body of a gilt chariot being removed from the tomb
[The Tomb of Tutankhamun]
1922-1923
Gelatin silver print
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 14 May 2019, Lot: 114
LL/90536
19 of 27
Scouts dig into the Past
1928, 12 November (published in a newspaper)
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Carl Mautz
LL/87456 [Further details available]
20 of 27
Pachacamac in the Lurin Valley to the south of Lima on the southern central coast of Peru.
1938
Gelatin silver print
British Museum
Museum number: Am,B53.73
LL/89826 [Further details available]
21 of 27
La Ripa necropolis (Italy): the excavations in progress
1933
Photograph
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze
Courtesy of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze (Polo Museale della Toscana) - All rights reserved
LL/97174
22 of 27
Iran: Persia: Persepolis [Archaeological excavation]
n.d.
Photograph
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Photo Number(s): 057002, Negative Number(s): 037071
LL/103688
23 of 27
Palestine: Megiddo Period: thirteenth century B.C. Details: A-500: Upper burial in position; the painted pot at the left is the Megiddo Vase, field registration number P-3317; thirteenth century B.C
n.d.
Photograph
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Photo Number(s): 018692, Negative Number(s): 017351
LL/103708
24 of 27
Palestine: Megiddo: Square W 16, East Slope: Tomb 1100 B
n.d.
Photograph
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Photo Number(s): 021486, Accession Photo Number: 1452
LL/103706
25 of 27
Palestine: Megiddo Details: Extension Ladder for making air photographs
n.d.
Photograph
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Photo Number(s): 021406, Negative Number(s): 011591, Accession Photo Number: 1452, Accession Negative Number: 1637
LL/103704
26 of 27
Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith-Woodward search for more bones [Piltdown, Sussex, England]
1913
Magazine illustration
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Source requested.
LL/114452 [Further details available]
27 of 27
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