E.A. Wallis BudgeE.A. Wallis Budge spent his life from 1857 to 1934. From 1894 to 1924, Budge oversaw the collection of Egyptian and Assyrian artifacts at the British Museum. He was also a Hebrew Scholar, a Tyrwhitt Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and a Forme Scholar of Christ's College. He amassed a sizable collection of papyri texts in Coptic, Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian. He took part in a lot of archaeological excavations in Sudan, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. The Papyrus of Ani, popularly known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead, was translated by Budge. He also examined a number of Egyptian rituals, languages, and religious practices. His written contributions included a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs, translated manuscripts, and hieroglyphs. The published writings of Budge covered a wide range of Egyptian cultural topics, including religion, mythology, and magical rituals. In 1920, he was knighted. On November 23, 1934, E.A. Wallis Budge passed away in London, England. In the recently renamed Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Budge first worked at the British Museum in 1883. He was at first assigned to the Assyrian section but soon moved to the Egyptian section. Read More Read Less
