ERA

Photograph of Flinders Petrie on site of BSAE excavations at Memphis around 1909. (Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, archives)

Flinders Petrie on site of BSAE excavations at Memphis around 1909. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL.

British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE), 1905–1954

The Egyptian Research Account (ERA) was essentially a bank account, rather than an institution.

Exhibition invitation card for display of finds from excavations at Abydos and drawings made by the ERA.

Egyptian Research Account (ERA), 1893–1905

With his appointment to the UK’s first Chair in Egyptian Archaeology and Anthropology at UCL in 1893 – the Edwards Professorship – Flinders Petrie was able to form his own Egyptian Research Account to support students participation in excavations in Egypt.