Guy Brunton

Guy Brunton (18 July 187817 October 1948) was born in Beckenham, England. His parents were Spencer Brunton and Jane Swift. He was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who aided in the discovery of the Badarian predynastic culture. Not much is known about his early childhood except that he had a fondness for books, and he discovered his passion for Egypt through reading. This book sparked his lifelong passion for Egypt and reading. Guy Brunton stayed in South Africa for more than the next ten years.

Education and married life On 28 April 1906, when he was 28 years old, he married Winifred Newberry, in Prynnsberg, Clocolan. Winifred Newberry was a member of one of the country's richest families, and in Five years later, in 1911 Guy and Winifred Brunton left South Africa and returned to London, where they studied under Flinders Petrie and Margaret Alice Murray in the Egyptology program offered at the University College of London-UCL For the next two years, Guy and Winifred Brunton were mostly under the tutelage of Margaret Murray. Guy and Winifred Brunton were some of the first students to study under Margaret Murray in the new revamped program at UCL.

Career After two years in the UCL Egyptology program, Guy dug from 1912 to 1914 under the direction of Flinders Petrie in Lahun. It was during this first dig at Lahun that he assisted in the discovery of the leftover treasure of Princess Sithathoriunet from the 12th dynasty. In the tomb of Sat-Hathor-Ant, the dig team found various remnants of different types of royal jewelry, beads, stones, personal effects, and canopic jars, all of which had been left behind after tomb robbers had raided it previously. The tomb of Sat-Hathor-Ant was short in its height, and the items found within had to be carefully recovered. After his service in the war, he returned to Lahun from 1919 to 1921. Brunton conducted extensive excavations in Middle Egypt during the 1920s. After his second season digging at Lahun, Brunton worked with Gertrude Caton Thompson at the sites of Qau and Badari from 1922 to 1931. The discoveries made at Qua and Badari by Brunton, Thompson, and their digging crew gave life to the understanding of the culture(s) that existed in Predynastic Middle and Upper Egypt. Murray led many of the programs at UCL teaching many students throughout the years including members of "The Gang". She was responsible for running many programs at UCL including the Egyptology program at UCL. This same program prepared Brunton for his career in Egyptology and Archaeology.