John Shae Perring

John Shae Perring (24 January 1813, Boston, Lincolnshire – 16 January 1869, Manchester) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist, most notable for his work excavating and documenting Egyptian pyramids.

In 1837 Perring and British archaeologist Richard William Howard Vyse began excavating at Giza;[1][2] they were later joined by Giovanni Battista Caviglia.

As part of his work, Perring created several maps, plans and cross-sections of the pyramids at Abu Roasch, Gizeh, Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur.

He was the first to explore the interior of the Pyramid of Userkaf at Saqqara in 1839, through a robber's tunnel first discovered in 1831.

Vyse also published Perring's sketches in the third volume of his own three-part work Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 with an Account of a Voyage Into Upper Egypt and an Appendix.