John Shae Perring
John Shae Perring (1813 –
1869) was a British
engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist.
In the field of
Egyptology his work is
fairly obscure, and was mainly concerned with the study of
pyramids.
At Giza
he and
Richard William Howard
Vyse worked with gunpowder forcing their way into several
monuments, including the burial chamber of the pyramid of Menkaure.
It was
Perring who first explored the interior of the Pyramid of
Userkaf
at Saqqara
in 1839,
though a robber's tunnel previously discovered by Orazio Marucchi
in 1831. Perring thought the pyramid belonged to
Djedkare. The pyramid was first correctly
identified by Egyptologist
Cecil Firth
in 1928.
He added some graffiti to the Red Pyramid
at Dahshur
, which can
still be viewed today.
His work as an anthropologist is even more obscure.
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