Reginald Engelbach

Reginald "Rex" Engelbach was an English Egyptologist and engineer, born on July 9, 1888, in Moretonhampstead, Devon, and he died in Cairo on February 26, 1946. After training at the City and Guilds Institute and studying Egyptology, Coptic, and Arabic at University College London, he moved into fieldwork and museum work centered on ancient Egypt.

From 1911 onward he worked on excavations with Flinders Petrie, and after service during the First World War he returned to Egyptology in both the field and the museum. He later served in the Antiquities Service and became Assistant Keeper, then Chief Keeper, at the Cairo Museum, where he became especially known for compiling a register of the museum's antiquities.

His writing reflected both his practical and scholarly sides. Works associated with him include Ancient Egyptian Masonry, written with Somers Clarke, the Index of Egyptian and Sudanese Sites from which the Cairo Museum contains Antiquities, and Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology, with Special Reference to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.