Amice Calverley

Amice Calverley (9 April 1896 – 10 April 1959) was an English-born Canadian Egyptologist who was instrumental to the recording and publication of the decoration in the temple of King Sethos I at Abydos.

Early life Amice Mary Calverley was born in London, England on 9 April 1896. Her family first moved to South Africa, then on to Canada. She studied music and earned some money from her needlework, before going to New York where she worked as a mannequin and dress-designer at Wanamaker's Store. After gaining a scholarship in 1922 to study at the Royal College of Music she returned to England.

During the winter of 1928–9, Calverley was working singlehandedly to draw and photograph the reliefs when John D. Rockefeller Jr. visited.

After working in Abydos, she went to Austria in 1933, where she wrote a string quartet in F Minor.