Background
Ernest was born on July 27, 1857, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Ernest was born on July 27, 1857, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, studying Semitics, and from 1885 to 1920 he was Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities of the British Museum. He was knighted in 1920. Budge supervised excavations at Nineveh and Der, in Mesopotamia, and at Assuan and Gebel Barkal, the ancient capital of Ethiopia, in Africa. He died in London, Nov. 23, 1934. Budge's translations include The Book of the Dead (1899, revised 1909) from Egyptian sources and Coptic Homilies (1910) relating to the early history of the Christian Church. Among his general works are The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians (1914), By Nile and Tigris (1920), and The Dwellers on the Nile (1926).