Stereoscopic Images and the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive, by The Griffith Institute – The Stereoscopy Blog

The Griffith Institute, established in 1939 as the Centre for Egyptology in Oxford, had the Beta Launch of their new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive in November 2025. It’s been the main focus of their work over the last year and features all records created during the 1925 unwrapping and examination of Tutankhamun’s mummified body.

Over the next two years, they hope to make the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available through this online resource.

The website includes a section on ‘Stories‘ where they upload articles which discuss new discoveries in the archive or deep dives into a particular object and its record, and the latest story will be very interesting for stereoscopy and Egyptology enthusiasts alike. 

You may remember, back in 2023, the Griffith Institute and the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy collaborated on a very popular 3-D presentation ‘Egypt in the Stereoscope: From Francis Frith to Harry Burton‘ at the Weston Library, University of Oxford. Yesterday’s story on the Tutkanhamun Spatial Archive features the stereoscopic pairs the Griffith Institute’s Jennifer Navratil and Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy’s Denis Pellerin made from Harry Burton’s photographs of the contents of the tomb, including the background story to the collaboration, and making the images stereoscopic, which were then used in the 3-D presentation. Jennifer was interviewed by Lara Bampfield, who wrote the article, and reading it is highly recommended:

Seeing in Three Dimensions: Stereoscopic Images and the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive | Tutankhamun Spatial Archive

We’ve been following the Griffith Institute’s progress on the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive and are so excited and happy for them to see this project go from strength to strength. Congratulations to the team!

Denis Pellerin has included more stereo pairs from Harry Burton’s photographs on Instagram, as well as a description of the collaboration and process:

Title image: Photographs by Harry Burton, reproduced with kind permission of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, edited by Denis Pellerin, Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy. With many thanks to Jenni Navratil for providing additional information about the Tutankhamun Spatial Archive project used in this post.

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