John Shae Perring

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John Shae Perring (1813 – 1869) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist. In the field of Egyptology his work is fairly obscure, and was mainly concerned with the study of pyramids. At Giza he and Richard William Howard Vyse worked with dynamite and gunpowder forcing their way into several monuments, including the burial chamber of the pyramid of Menkaure.

It was Perring who first explored the interior of Userkaf's pyramid complex at Saqqara in 1839, though a robber's tunnel previously discovered by Orazio Marucchi in 1831. Perring thought the pyramid belonged to Djedkare. The pyramid was first correctly identified by Egyptologist Cecil Firth in 1928.

He added some graffiti to the Red Pyramid at Dahshur, which can still be viewed today. His work as an anthropologist is even more obscure.