Percy Newberry
Also known as: Percy Edward Newberry
Percy Edward Newberry OBE was a British Egyptologist.
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Percy Newberry: Howard Carter
In 1890 Newberry travelled to Egypt with Howard Carter, whom Newberry had appointed as a trainee tracer, after recognising his talent as an artist.
Percy Newberry: 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.