Gerald Avery Wainwright (4 March 1879 – 28 May 1964) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who worked on excavations in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

and

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

. He was educated from 1889 to 1896 at

Clifton College Clifton College is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school in the city of Bristol in South West England, founded in 1862 and offering both boarding school, boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years, unlike mo ...

and at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford. He worked with

Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English people, English Egyptology, Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. ...

, before joining the staff of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. In 1922, he searched Salakhana's tomb in Asyut, which contained many canine mummies as well as 600 votive steles. Wainwright studied the sky-religion of ancient Egypt. In 1932, he discovered that the Egyptians used the swan constellation to determine the north. Named after him, the Wainwright Fund at the University of Oxford provides funding for students and scholars to study Near East archaeology.

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{{Egyptologist-stub 1879 births 1964 deaths British Egyptologists People educated at Clifton College