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More photographic archives on the Griffith Institute website
20th Dec, 2008 to 20th Dec, 2009
Professor F. Ll. Griffith during his epigraphic work at Philae.
The photographs of R. St. A. Heathcote in the Griffith Institute, Oxford Reginald St. Alban Heathcote (1888-1951) was Professor of Pharmacology at Cairo University between 1922 and 1933. During his stay in Egypt he became interested in modern as well as ancient Egypt and took a large number of remarkable black-and-white photographs. Some 2,500 of these are in the Archive of the Griffith Institute in Oxford. A selection of them can be seen in the form of a database on the Institute’s website (click here).
The Great Sphinx being restored by Émile Baraize between 1923 and 1936.
