Egypt Exploration Society
Videos
The Egypt Exploration Society is a British non-profit organisation founded in 1882 for the purpose of supporting and promoting Egyptian cultural heritage. It was founded by novelist and travel writer
Amelia Edwards in America, 1890
Édouard Naville
Videos
Henri Édouard Naville was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar.
Egypt Exploration Society
…Edwards personally, Wilson was first to pledge, gifting the organization £500 in starter funds. The first excavator of the Egypt Exploration Fund was Édouard Naville, a Swiss Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. Naville was granted permission to survey Tell el-Maskhuta for signs of the Biblical Exodus, to drum up…
c. 1917
Statue of Ramesses II found by Naville at Bubastis, on display at Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva