Author Quibell James Edward

James Edward Quibell (11 November 1867 – June 5, 1935[1]) was a British Egyptologist, born in Newport, Shropshire. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was fascinated by the antiquities, and offered himself as a pupil to Professor William Matthew Flinders Petrie, with whom he had worked at Coptos in 1893, then at Nagada, Buleas, Thebes, El Kab, and Hierakonpolis in successive years. including Koptos and Ballas, the Ramesseum and Hierakonpolis. He also assisted Cecil Firth in his excavations in Saqqara. Between 1899 and 1904, he also served as the Chief Inspector of antiquities for the Delta and Middle Egypt (Howard Carter's, who was Chief Inspector at Luxor was his opposite). Later, between 1904 and 1905, he was appointed as the Chief Inspector at Saqqara. Between 1914 and 1923, he was a Keeper in the Cairo Museum, and served as director of excavations at the Step Pyramid between 1931 and 1935. [1] After six months' study at the Humboldt University of