John Shae Perring

John Shae Perring ( born January 24, 1813 in Boston, Lincolnshire, † January 16, 1869 in Manchester ) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist, who was mainly known for his research and documentation work in numerous Egyptian pyramids.

In 1837, the Egyptologist Richard William Howard Vyse and Perring began initially along with Giovanni Battista Caviglia excavations at Giza, to explore the pyramids and documented. After the separation of Caviglia Perring Vyse was assistant. In exploring the pyramids and he Vyse also used dynamite to gain access to closed areas of the tombs.

After Vyse's return to England in 1837 Perring took over with Vyse's financial support further research. As part of its work Perring produced, among other maps, plans and internal profiles of the pyramids of Abu Roasch, Giza, Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur.

Perring was 1839, the first of the discovered inside the Userkaf Pyramid at Saqqara by a previously Orazio Marucchi ( 1852-1931 ) grave robbers entered the tunnel. Inside the Red Pyramid in Dahshur affixed by Perring visitors graffiti is legible today.

The results of his work in the measurement of the pyramids Perring published 1839-1842 in a three-volume work entitled The Pyramids of Giza. Vyse published Perrings also sketches in the third volume of his own three -part work under the title Appendix to Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Giza in 1837.

Writings

• John Shae Perring: The Pyramids of Giza, Vol I-III, London, James Fraser (1839-1842)