Guy Brunton

Guy Brunton OBE (1878 – 17 October 1948^[1]) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture.

Guy Brunton OBE
Born	1878 (1878) London, England
Died	October 17, 1948(1948-10-17) (aged 69–70) White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Occupation(s)	Egyptologist, archaeologist
Spouse	Winifred Brunton ​ (m. 1906)​

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

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 (including Mostagedda, Badari, Matmar, and Qua el-Kebir). 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.^[2]