Margaret Benson
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Margaret Benson (June 16, 1865 – May 1916) was an English artist, author and Egyptologist, one of the six children of Edward White Benson, an Anglican clergyman (later Archbishop of Canterbury). She attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Along with Janet Gourlay she was one of the first to excavate at the Mut Complex in Karnak, near Thebes in Egypt.
Later, in 1907 she suffered a severe mental breakdown and she died in 1916 (in the Priory, Roehampton)
[edit] Publications
- Benson, Margaret and Gourlay, Janet. The Temple of Mut in Asher: An account of the excavation of the temple and of the religious representations and objects found therein, as illustrating the history of Egypt and the main religious ideas of the Egyptians, London, John Murray, 1899
