Alan Gardiner
Also known as: Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, FBA was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar.
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Alan Gardiner: Howard Carter
After Howard Carter discovered the near–intact tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922, Gardiner provided advice and support.
Alan Gardiner: Opening Tutankhamun’s Tomb, 1922
Other experts also volunteered their services: Alfred Lucas, a chemist for the Antiquities Service, whose expertise would be a great help in the conservation effort; James Henry Breasted and Alan Gardiner, two of the foremost scholars of the Egyptian language of the time, to translate any texts discovered in the tomb; and Percy Newberry, a specialist of botanical specimens, and his wife Essie, who helped conserve textiles from the burial.