Acknowledgements
Steering Group Chris Naunton (Egypt Exploration Society), Alison Petch (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford), John Taylor (British Museum) Alexandra Villing (British Museum), Cat Warsi (Griffith Institute , University of Oxford).
Student volunteers Iain Birkett, Amanda Ford Spora, Alix Robinson, Katerina Ball, Bryony Smerdon, Cecilia Cardini, Kristian Brink, Maya Howard, Lea Rofer, Katee Dean, Jocelyn Miyara, Gisele Santos, Emily Spray, Ava Clarke, Ashley Kruger, Ali Hassan.
IT assistance: Richard Carpenter, Alastair Pirrie, Paul Smeddle, John Tarling
With additional thanks to Carl Graves, Maria Rodriguez Rubin, Hazel Grey (Egypt Exploration Society); Vincent Razanajao, Richard Parkinson, Elizabeth Fleming (Griffith Institute, University of Oxford); Debbie Challis, Stephen Quirke, Maria Ragan, Hannah Uhmar (UCL); Stephanie Yoxall (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford).
Static archive The live Drupal 7 site was converted to a fully static HTML
archive in 2026. The conversion was carried out using
Claude Code
(Anthropic, model: claude-sonnet-4-6). A custom Python pipeline parsed the raw MySQL dump
(extract_data.py), reconstructed all content as JSON, and generated 7,159 static HTML pages
(build_site.py). Drupal internal links and node/NID paths were rewritten to
root-relative URLs (fix_links.py). The 7.5 GB image archive is served directly from the
original Drupal files directory via symlink. The resulting site requires no database, no PHP, and no
server-side processing — it can be hosted on any static web server.