The Story

From discovery (1837) to export decision and the shipwreck (1838), anchored by primary documents and a timeline.

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Actors

Vyse (excavator, donor)

Campbell (consul, sponsor)

Sloane (consulate link)

Hawkins (BM Keeper)

Whichelo (captain/owner)

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Bibliography

First-hand and peer-reviewed only:

Vyse, Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh (1840).

British Museum Trustees’ Minutes (1838–1839).

Lloyd’s Lists / Registers (1830s).

Nielsen, “Mercantile Networks …” Int. J. Maritime History 36:2 (2024).

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Image Bank

Perring’s plates, British Museum fragment photography, engravings, route maps.

Scholarly captions with repository IDs.

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Research Dossier — Selected Updates

Short, source-based notes. Each item references its evidence.

British Museum fragment — new image set online

High-resolution colour images of the surviving basalt fragment enable closer comparison with Perring’s plate and support colour-matched reconstruction work.

Source: BM collection page; archived locally.

Trustees authorize transport (Jan 1838)

Minutes confirm acceptance of Vyse’s donation and funds for transport Giza → Alexandria → London.

Ref: British Museum Trustees’ Minutes.

Beatrice route & cargo patterns consolidated

Liverpool–Alexandria circuit with Malta calls; adverts list cotton and “natural history” cases alongside general cargo.

Refs: Lloyd’s Lists & Liverpool press extracts.