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ARCHAEOLOGIST

E. A. Wallis Budge

1857 - 1934

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Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips to Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on behalf of the British Museum to buy antiquities, and helped it build its collection of cuneiform tablets, manuscripts, and papyri. He published many books on Egyptology, helping to bring the findings to larger audiences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. A. Wallis Budge has received more than 285,771 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). E. A. Wallis Budge is the 71st most popular archaeologist (up from 74th in 2019), the 2,695th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,082nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 71 out of 104. Before him are Victor Loret, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, José Bonaparte, Florentino Ameghino, Kathleen Kenyon, and Giuseppe Tucci. After him are Ernst Herzfeld, Johan David Åkerblad, Donald Johanson, François Bordes, Rudolf Wagner, and André Parrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 90. Before him are Shibli Nomani, Uroš Predić, Filippo Turati, Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Ayub Khan, and Wilhelm Kienzl. After him are Knut Ångström, Georges Leygues, Alice Pike Barney, George Gissing, Juan Luna, and Helena Westermarck. Among people deceased in 1934, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 99. Before him are Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Benjamin Baillaud, Edgar Jung, Karl von Einem, Jafar Jabbarly, and Maria Zankovetska. After him are Lucien Gaudin, Joachim Ringelnatz, Giovanni Brunero, Mikhail Matyushin, Gertrude Käsebier, and Jean-Baptiste Marchand.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 2,695 out of 7,765. Before him are Joseph Grimaldi (1778), Richard Marquand (1937), John Keegan (1934), Edward John Eyre (1815), Martin Barre (1946), and Freddie Jones (1927). After him are Elizabeth Fry (1780), Naveen Andrews (1969), Anna Russell (1807), Robert Fisk (1946), Edward Fortunatus (1565), and Thandie Newton (1972).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, E. A. Wallis Budge ranks 13. Before him are Max Mallowan (1904), George Smith (1840), Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), and Kathleen Kenyon (1906). After him are John Evans (1823), Charles Dawson (1864), John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), Dorothy Garrod (1892), and James Prinsep (1799).

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