Charlotte Booth

Egyptologist and historian of archival technique, author of the 2018 University of Birmingham PhD thesis "Excavating Paper Squeezes: Identifying the value of nineteenth and early twentieth century squeezes of ancient Egyptian monuments, through the collections of seven UK archives." Matters to this vault as the source, directly fetched and read (not search-summarized), for two 2026-08-13 corrections to claim-lepsius-founding-practitioner-of-the-squeeze-method: that the squeeze technique itself predates Lepsius by roughly 150 years in Mediterranean epigraphy, and that the scholarly literature (via her citation of R. A. Caminos, 1976) frames Lepsius as the starting point specifically for Egyptological, not general, use of the method.

References

• claim-egyptological-squeeze-literature-treats-lepsius-as-starting-point
• claim-squeeze-technique-predates-lepsius-learned-not-invented
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-13-does-a-primary-or-scholarly-source-confirm-lepsius.md