Guy  Brunton  ( 18.07.1878  -  17.10.1948 )

Guy Brunton was a British Egyptologist and archaeologist. He married Winifred Newberry in 1906, who assisted him in Egypt during fieldwork. A student of William M.F. Petrie and Margaret A. Murray, he worked with W.M.F. Petrie at Lahun in 1912–1914, and again after the war in 1919–1921. He famously excavated at Qau and Badari with Gertrude Caton-Thompson where Badarian – at the time the oldest known culture of predynastic Upper Egypt – was discovered. G. Brunton later worked at Der Tasa, where he uncovered yet earlier remains. In 1927, he very briefly visited Hierakonpolis, where he recognised the settlement nature of remains that had previously been thought to belong to cemeteries. As the assistant Keeper at the Cairo Museum since 1931, he significantly reorganised the galleries.