Harry Burton (Egyptologist)

Harry Burton (* September 13, 1879 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, † June 27, 1940 in Assiut, Egypt) worked as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the 1920s and 1930s in Egypt.

Harry was the son of cabinet maker William Burton and Ann Hufton. 5 out of 11 children took Robert Needham Cust ( 1821-1909 ) to his on and took care of his education. This had returned after 20 years of service as a lawyer for the East India Company in 1868 to England and devoted himself entirely to his studies now in history, geography, oriental languages ​​and religion. Cust was a religious person and socially adjusted. Later he made Burton to his secretary and took him to Florence.

In Florence Burton developed his skills with the camera and was known as a talented photographer of paintings. Here he also met Theodore M. Davis, the wealthy Americans who owned an excavation license for the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Davis presented a 1910 Burton as a photographer and later even as excavation director.

When Davis gave up his license in 1914, Burton was hired as a photographer of the Egyptian expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Albert M. Lythgoe, a post he held until his death. Harry Burton was as a photographer at the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) in the Valley of the Kings as a photographer, a member of the excavation team of Howard Carter.