The Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the most important in Britain. When first catalogued by Wallis Budge, a leading Victorian Egyptologist, in 1893, it contained 577 items. His catalogue contains detailed descriptions, with transcriptions and translations of the hieroglyphs that appear on the objects.
The first catalogue (1893) of Budge's important collection of Egyptian artefacts at the Fitzwilliam Museum.
