Barbara Georgina Adams, FRSA (19 February 1945 – 26 June 2002) was a distinguished British Egyptologist, archaeologist, and academic, who was a specialist in Prehistoric Egypt.

Her parents had unskilled jobs but she gained a scholarship to Godolphin and Latymer School but her finances did not run to study after sixteen.

[3] In 1964 she won the Miss Hammersmith beauty contest and a book of her poetry Bones in my Soul was published.

[1] Her employment with Professor Harry Smith, Edward Chair in Egyptian Archaeology of the University College, helped her career.

Contacts with artifacts from the Romano-British site at Dragonby in Lincolnshire) in excavations of 1966 were followed by a seminal encounter in the same year with Hierakonpolis artefacts.

In 1967 she married a civil servant named Rob Adams, moved to Enfield and also gained a distinction for her London University diploma in archaeology.

She turned her literary attention intermittently in the proceeding years to archived documents held in museums of the United Kingdom.