Guy Brunton
Guy Brunton was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture.
Biography
At the age of 18, he moved to South Africa. On 28 April 1906, he married Winifred Newberry, a member of one of the country's richest families, and in 1911 he returned to London, where he studied with Flinders Petrie and Margaret Alice Murray.He dug from 1912 to 1914 under the direction of Flinders Petrie in Lahun and discovered the treasure of Princess Sithathoriunet. He then served in the British Army during the First World War and returned to Lahun from 1919 to 1921.
Brunton conducted extensive excavations in Middle Egypt during the 1920s. Working under the auspices of the Egyptian Exploration Society, he excavated several sites in the region, particularly in the Asyut Governorate. These excavations were crucial in identifying and defining the Badarian culture, a prehistoric culture in Upper Egypt that predates the more well-known Predynastic and Pharaonic periods.
He became an assistant director of the Cairo Museum in 1931. He retired to South Africa.
Publications
Category:1878 birthsCategory:1948 deaths
Category:English Egyptologists
Category:English expatriates in South Africa
Category:20th-century British archaeologists
Category:20th-century English writers
Category:20th-century English male writers
Category:Egyptian Museum
Category:Alumni of University College London
Category:Artists' Rifles soldiers
Category:Badarian culture
Category:British expatriates in Egypt
Category:Officers_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire