Guy Brunton (1878 in London, England – 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture. He married Winifred Newberry on 28 April 1906. Her father built Prynnsberg Estate. He served in the First World War and returned to archaeology becoming assistant director of the Cairo Museum in 1931, he retired to South Africa. A student of Sir Flinders Petrie, Brunton became Assistant Director of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1931. References Publications 1878 births 1948 deaths British archaeologists English Egyptologists British expatriates in South Africa 20th-century archaeologists 20th-century English writers 20th-century English male writers Egyptian Museum Alumni of University College London Artists' Rifles soldiers Badarian culture British expatriates in Egypt