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E. A. Wallis Budge
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<p>Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 1857 – 23 November 1934) was an English <a href="/facts/Egyptology/juVkduLw">Egyptologist</a>, <a href="/facts/Orientalism/56Rfn244">Orientalist</a>, and <a href="/facts/Philology/5u0xzd5g">philologist</a> who worked for the <a href="/facts/British_Museum/mq5LadWV">British Museum</a> and published numerous works on the <a href="/facts/Ancient_Near_East/Ipt8t839">ancient Near East</a>. He made numerous trips to Egypt and <a href="/facts/Anglo-Egyptian_Sudan/5gqWINEc">Anglo-Egyptian Sudan</a> 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. In 1920, he was knighted for his service to <a href="/facts/Egyptology/juVkduLw">Egyptology</a> and the British Museum. </p>