Guy Brunton

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Guy Brunton OBE (1878 - 1948) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who revealed the Badarian culture of prehistoric Egypt.

A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1931.

After his retirement, Brunton relocated to South Africa, the native country of his wife, where he died.

[edit] Publications

• 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.