Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, CBE, FBA (21 July 1909 – 24 September 1996)[1] — known as I. E. S. Edwards— was an English Egyptologist and curator, considered to be a leading expert on the pyramids.
[2] He attended Merchant Taylors' School, where he studied Hebrew,[3] and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a first class in Oriental Languages.
In 1934 Edwards joined the British Museum as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.
In 1955 he was appointed the Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and organized the Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972.
On leaving the British Museum he worked with UNESCO during the rescue of the temple complex at Philae.