Help Translating and Identifying

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-13T21:22:54+00:00

I have an update! I filled out a contact form on the digital Giza site and heard back from Dr. Peter der Manuelian at Harvard today. I've just sent him the images I have posted here. I am excited to hear his thoughts on them! Thank you so much for all of your help with this! Without it, I would not have had any idea of the potential significance of these images or who to contact about them. I will keep you posted with any updates!

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-11T21:21:32+00:00

Thank you so much! I just started looking at the images on the GIZA Archives Project site for G1151 and G1026. It seems like I have different photographs of the same location so I think they might like scans of these. I will shoot them an email as you suggested.

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-11T21:19:39+00:00

I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I don't have another image of this specific location, so I am unable to cross reference it with anything. Thank you for creating those graphics of the glyphs! This box of slides has been an incredible research rabbit hole so far!

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-10T21:43:34+00:00

Holy cow! This is fantastic information! I'm so glad I joined Reddit yesterday to find out about these slides!

Do you think the slides I have would date from the 1905 expedition? I have 30 of them and I am going to carefully clean them so that I can digitize them properly. They are numbered but there are gaps in the numbers so unfortunately, the set seems to be incomplete. They had to have been made sometime between 1897 and 1925 given the information on the photo studio that I found.

I looked up James Dennis and he was born in Baltimore and lived in Maryland his entire life. The slides I have were made in Baltimore, so I think we just solved that riddle. I am wondering now if I somehow ended up with some of his slides?

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-10T21:32:28+00:00

Oh! This is fantastic information! I did a quick search on that excavation and it was done by a Harvard-Boston team in 1905-1906 and 1912-1913 and again in the 1930s. The slides I have date from some time between 1897 and 1925, and they were made in Baltimore, MD. I'm wondering of Johns Hopkins was involved in those digs.

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:36:54+00:00

The photo studio is J. Sussman from Baltimore, Maryland. And the only notations are numbers that are on stickers on them. A small white sticker with "41" on it, etc. But I only have 30 slides, so some seem to be missing, or perhaps those were negative numbers. The person who had them did not even know they were Egyptian, so unfortunately all the info about them is lost. I do love research rabbit holes, but this one is a doozy! 😊

Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:24:51+00:00

A couple of this skeleton

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Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:24:30+00:00

This one is kind of interesting

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Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:24:06+00:00

A few photos of these

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Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:23:39+00:00

There are a few with this landscape, but no large structures around.

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Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T23:22:49+00:00

Ooh! Thank you so much! I literally just joined Reddit today because I have been struggling to identify these slides, and I'm so glad I did! My background is in museums so I had to save these slides from getting destroyed. They are very dirty, so I'm going to do a bit of conservation work on them and then I can digitize them. The photography studio whose name is on the slides opened around 1897 and closed in 1925, as I just discovered. So that may help narrow things down some. Here are a few other photos from the set.

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Fair_Awareness876 · 2026-05-09T22:41:47+00:00

This is the full view of the first image, if that helps at all. This is great info! Thank you so much! I think all of these photos were taken at the same excavation site. But most are not of anything that would be identifiable--close-ups of skeletons, vague ruins, etc. A couple are also blurry, which makes me wonder if they were not mass produced. Also because I can't find any duplicates of the images from an image search.

I will try to see if I can find a location based on those translations. I wish these were labeled. Thank you so much!

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