For Researchers

Browse images and information about the Museum and Archive collections here.

There is currently no searchable online catalogue of the Museum’s Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern collections. The following sections which list object types held and sites and excavations from which objects were acquired will give an idea of the breadth of the collections; for more information, please contact the Curator.

This information was originally compiled for www.cornucopia.org.uk, an online database of museum collections. Visiting this site and searching for “Ancient Egyptian” will reveal details of other Egyptian Collections throughout the United Kingdom.

The approximate number of Egyptian items in Bolton's collection is around 10,000. This is still in the process of cataloguing.

Classes of Material

A list of all the types of objects represented in the Egyptology collection as well as the periods they come from.

Provenance

A detailed list of all the sites that material is provenanced (or authenticated) from.

Bibliography

A list of books and references related specifically to the Bolton Egyptology collection.