British School of Archaeology in Egypt

Neolithic flint arrowhead recovered during excavations directed by Gertrude Caton-Thompson with funding from the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Royal Anthropological Institute, 1927–1928

Getrude Caton-Thompson, who had earlier in the 1920s excavated at several sites in the Badari region of Egypt for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE), undertook pioneering fieldwork in the Egyptian Fayum region between 1927–1928 funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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.

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