Harry Smith (Egyptologist)

Henry Sidney Smith, FBA (14 June 1928 – 8 September 2024) was a British Egyptologist and academic, specialising in epigraphy and Egyptian archaeology.

[3] Having won an Open Scholarship, he matriculated into Christ's College, Cambridge, in September 1949 to study classics.

[1] From 1953 to 1954, Smith worked as an epigraphist on the Theban tombs, and was an assistant to W. B. Emery at his archaeological excavation at Saqqara.

[6] He continued to assist at excavations in Egypt and Nubia, working at the Buhen fortress and Qasr Ibrim from 1959.

[3][4] In 1961, he directed the Egypt Exploration Society's archaeological survey of Egyptian Nubia in preparation for the Aswan Dam.

[1] He was additionally appointed an honorary curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, a position he held between 1963 and 1970.