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13-464: Hatnub was first described in modern times by Percy Newberry and Howard Carter in 1891. There are many inscriptions on the rocks, and these were first described by George Willoughby Fraser and Marcus Worsley Blackden , members of this same expedition. For nearly hundred years, archaeologists concentrated on finding and translating these inscriptions which illuminated much ordinary life in ancient Egypt . Only when Ian Shaw and his team began studying

26-438: A stone block and was attached with ropes to these wooden posts, ancient Egyptians were able to pull up the alabaster blocks out of the quarry on very steep slopes of 20 percent or more." 27°33′00″N 31°00′00″E  /  27.5500°N 31.0000°E  / 27.5500; 31.0000 Percy Newberry Percy Edward Newberry OBE (23 April 1869 – 7 August 1949) was a British Egyptologist . Percy Newberry

39-508: A trainee tracer, after recognising his talent as an artist. There they worked on the excavation of Beni Hasan and El-Bersheh , which Newberry led from 1890 to 1894, writing a two-volume monograph on Beni Hasan. From 1895 to 1905 he worked as a freelance excavator in the Theban necropolis , his patrons including Lord Amherst , the Marquess of Northampton , and Theodore M. Davis . In 1902 he joined

52-534: Is a chair in economics . It was established in 1891 by John Tomlinson Brunner , the chemical industrialist and Liberal MP for Northwich . Brunner's son Sidney had been a student at University College Liverpool at the time of his death in 1890. After correspondence with Willam Rathbone , Brunner founded the chair in memory of both his son and his father, the Swiss-born Unitarian schoolmaster John Brunner (born 1800). The Brunner Professorship of Egyptology

65-764: The Egypt Exploration Fund , founded just two years previously. Here he met a number of established Egyptologists, including Flinders Petrie , Amelia Edwards and F. L. Griffith , who acted as his mentor . He continued in this role until 1886, when he began his own research in Egyptology, presenting a paper on botany in excavations to the British Association in 1888, with Petrie making use of Newberry's botanical expertise to identify botanical remains found during past excavations. In 1890 Newberry travelled to Egypt with Howard Carter , whom Newberry had appointed as

78-606: The Griffith Institute at Oxford University . His publications include: Brunner Professor of Egyptology Three chairs at the University of Liverpool were endowed by local industrialist Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet : the Brunner Professorship of Economic Science , the Brunner Professorship of Egyptology , and the Brunner Professorship of Physical Chemistry . The Brunner Professorship of Economic Science

91-849: The Order of the British Empire for his work with the Ministry of National Service during the First World War . On 12 February 1907 Newberry married Essie Winifred Johnston (1878–1953). They had no children. He died on 7 August 1949 at his home in Godalming in Surrey aged 80. Newberry wrote extensively on Egyptology, including reports on archaeological findings and numerous contributions to English, French, and German scientific journals. After his death, Newberry's widow presented his correspondence and manuscripts to

104-647: The Tutankhamun excavation team for several seasons, and was present on 12 February 1924 when the king's sarcophagus was opened. His speciality was the botanical specimens from the tomb, on which he would briefly report in the second volume of Carter's The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen , published in 1927. In 1927–28 Newberry explored the Gabal Elba region of the Sudan, and was Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at Cairo University from 1929 to 1933. He continued to work with

117-615: The Egypt Exploration Society, helping to organise the Society's work at the pharaoh Akhenaten 's capital at Amarna in the 1930s. He was elected the Society's vice-president shortly before his death. He received further honours, including President of the anthropology section of the British Association (1923) and vice-president of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1926). In 1920 he was appointed an Officer of

130-518: The Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) announced the discovery of an ancient ramp at the site. The well-preserved ramp, which dates to the reign of Khufu , may shed light on how his Great Pyramid was constructed. Project co-director Yannis Gourdon from the IFAO says that "the system is composed of a central ramp flanked by two staircases with numerous post holes. Using a sled which carried

143-491: The material remains were the two integrated to give a fuller picture. For example, no New Kingdom inscriptions were found, and it was thought that the quarries were not used during that period. Shaw and his team found New Kingdom pottery fragments showing that workers from this period must have used the quarries. In 2018, researchers from the University of Liverpool's Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (ACE) and

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156-659: The staff of the Catalogue Général of the Services des Antiquities of the Cairo Museum . On the strength of his fieldwork and publications, Newberry was appointed the first Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool , serving from 1906 to 1919. He was then an honorary Reader in Egyptian Art at Liverpool, (1919 to 1949), and was made a fellow of King's College, London, (1908 to 1949). Newberry supported

169-497: Was born in Islington , London on 23 April 1869. His parents were Caroline ( née  Wyatt ) and Henry James Newberry, a woollen warehouseman. Newberry developed a strong attachment to botany in childhood and was also an excellent artist. He studied at King's College School and King's College London , and studied botany at Kew Gardens . In 1884, on the invitation of Reginald Stuart Poole , Newberry began administrative work at

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