Harry Burton
(1879-1940)
Harry Burton (13 September 1879 – 27 June 1940) was an English archaeological photographer, best known for his photographs of excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Today, he is sometimes referred to as an Egyptologist, since he worked for the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for around 25 years, from 1915 until his death. His most famous photographs are the estimated 3,400 or more images that he took documenting Howard Carter's excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb from 1922 to 1932.
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A detailed visual record of the archaeological methods and discoveries during the excavation of Tutankhamun’s and Horemheb’s tombs in the 1920s.
Books
Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023)
Wonderful things: The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
(Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978)