Percy Newberry

Percy Edward Newberry ( born April 23 1868 in London, † August 7, 1949 in Godalming ) was a British Egyptologist and botanist.

Percy Newberry was born 1868 in Islington, a northern district of London, the son of Caroline Wyatt and the warehouse worker Henry James Newberry. Even in his childhood Percy Newberry developed a strong inclination for botany and was first formed at the King's College School ( Wimbledon ) and later at King's College London.

At the suggestion of Reginald Stuart Poole, head of the Department of medals and coins of the British Museum in London Newberry began in 1884 with administrative tasks founded two years earlier Egypt Exploration Fund.

As a professor in Liverpool and Cairo Percy Newberry was a mentor of Howard Carter and carried out archaeological excavations at Beni Hassan, El - Bersheh and Western Thebes. Newberry was one of Carter's excavation team in the Valley of the Kings, which in began on November 1, 1922 excavation season then discovered the grave of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ). He studied as a botanist and Egyptologist who discovered in this grave floral tributes.

Works

• Publications (1893-1900) by the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (ASE ) of the Egypt Exploration Fund ( EDF) in 6 volumes about Beni Hassan and El Bersheh (online): vol. 1: Percy E. Newberry: Beni Hasan, Part I, London, 1893.
• Vol. 2: Percy E. Newberry: Beni Hasan, Part II, London, 1893.
• Vol. 3: Percy E. Newberry: El Bersheh, Part I ( The Tomb of Tehuti - Hetep ). With plan and Measurement of the Tomb by G. Willoughby Fraser, London, 1894 under historic Heidelberger stocks - digital
• Vol. 4: FL Griffith, Percy E. Newberry: El Bersheh, Part II ( Nine Inscribed Tombs ). With Appendix, Plans and Measurements of the Tombs by G. Willoughby Fraser, London, 1895.
• Vol. 5: F. Ll. Griffith: Beni Hassan, Part III. London, 1896.
• Vol. 7: Howard Carter, MW Blackden, Percy Brown, Percy Buckman: Beni Hassan, Part IV: Zoological and Other Details. London., 1900.