Guy Brunton

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.

Face of a king, probably Senusret III, wearing the nemes royal headdress. Quartzite. 12th Dynasty. Presented by Guy Brunton. Petrie Museum, London

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.

He became an assistant director of the Cairo Museum in 1931. He retired to South Africa.^[2]