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A pivotal figure in the field of Egyptology, Assyriology, and biblical studies, Sir Ernest Wallis Budge was an illegitimate child of the Victorian age who succeeded against the odds. Today he is castigated by archeologists anxious to distance their field from its imperialist birth.

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