Griffith Institute

The Griffith Institute is based on both the Ashmolean Museum facility that belongs to the University of Oxford in the fields of Egyptology. The Institute is named after the Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, the donations allowed to flow into the device. The Griffith Institute was opened on 21 January 1939 and even then possessed its own independent administration.

The Institute has an important and unique archive of Egyptology. It kept copies of inscriptions, drawings and water drawings, old negatives, photographs, and printed works. In addition, the device via text by Alan H. Gardiner and Jaroslav Černý and recordings Howard Carter's records of Nubienexpedition of Sir Henry Wellcome has as part of its excavations in 1922. Also stored in these archives.

The Griffith Institute periodically publishes the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, and is also responsible for major publications such as Egypt Grammar by Gardiner and Faulkner's A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian.

In addition, managed the establishment of the AH Gardiner Travel Scholarship in Egyptology, which has set itself the goal of improving the friendship between British Egyptologist and the State of Egypt.

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  • Official website of the Griffith Institute
  • Research Institute in the United Kingdom
  • Egyptology
  • University of Oxford
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