Guy Brunton
| Guy Brunton OBE | |||||||
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| Born | 1878 | ||||||
| Died | 1948 | ||||||
| Residence |
2 Regent's Court, Park road, NW [1913] Maadi, Egypt | ||||||
| Occupation |
museum work archaeologist egyptologist | ||||||
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b. 18 July 1878 Asst. Keeper Cairo Museum
Guy Brunton OBE (1878 in London, England – 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa [1]) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture. He married Winifred Newberry on 28 April 1906. Her father built Prynnsberg Estate. He served in the First World War and returned to archaeology becoming assistant director of the Cairo Museum in 1931, he retired to South Africa. [2]
A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1931.
British Egyptologist. Studied Egyptology under Petrie and Margaret Murray. Between 1912-14 he excavated with Petrie at Lahun, and after war service again in 1919-21. He then excavated at Qau, Badari and Deir Tasa before taking up a post in the Cairo Museum in 1931. He was assisted in his work by his wife, Winifred, an artist. After his retirement he returned to South Africa, where he died without having completed his work on button seals.
See Who Was Who in Egyptology (3rd ed. 1995), 68-9.
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Qau and Badari (with chapters by Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, and W. M. Flinders Petrie), London British School of Archaeology in Egypt, University College, Gower Street, W.C. & Bernard Quaritch, 11 Grafton Street, New Bond Street W., 1927.
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