Nora Griffith

An haife ta a matsayin Nora Christina Cobban Macdonald a Newmachar kusa da Aberdeen a cikin 1870,ita 'yar Likita-Manjo James Macdonald(1828-1906)na Aberdeen da Margaret Helen Leslie née Collie(1841-1876) kuma 'yar'uwar Sir James Ronald Leslie Macdonald (1862-1927),injiniyan Scotland,mai bincike,mai daukar hoto da injiniyan Sojan Burtaniya . Ta ziyarci Masar a 1906 bayan haka ta yi aiki a matsayin mai kula da kayan tarihi na Archaeology a Kwalejin King a Aberdeen. Kasancewa mai sha'awar Egiptoology ta yi karatunsa a ƙarƙashin fitaccen masanin Masarautar Burtaniya Francis Llewellyn Griffith a Jami'ar Oxford .A cikin 1909 ta zama matar Griffith ta biyu kuma ta taimaka masa a cikin karatunsa da tono abubuwa a Masar da Nubia a 1910–13,1923,1929 da 1930. Kwararren mai daukar hoto da zane-zane,ta kasance mai hazaka sosai kuma tana da kyauta ga tsoffin harsuna da na zamani.Yayin da ta buga labarai da yawa a cikin mujallu na masana ana yawan yin watsi da ita a cikin bayanan Egiptology. A cikin 1923 ta buga labarinta'Akhenaten da Hittiyawa'a cikin Journal of Egypt Archaeology.

Bayan mutuwar mijinta a shekara ta 1934 ta shirya aikin da ba a gama ba don bugawa ciki har da littafinsa na Demotic Graffiti a cikin Dodecaschoenus,cike da hotuna 70 ban da hotuna da kanta.Ta shirya kuma ta ba da kuɗin ƙarin aikin tono albarkatu a Firka da Kawa a cikin Sudan kuma ta tallafa wa Masarautar Exploration Society da kuɗi a cikin aikinta. Ta kara da kuma fadada babban dakin karatu na Egyptological wanda mijinta da kanta suka tattara wanda daga baya aka ba da gudummawa ga Jami'ar Oxford kuma ta kara da kanta ga na mijinta marigayi don ginawa da bayar da kyauta na Griffith Institute a Oxford wanda An sadaukar da shi don ci gaban Egiptoology da Nazarin Gabas ta Tsakiya na Tsohon.