English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum. Budge became interested in ancient languages at a very young age. Budge attended Cambridge University, where he studied Semitic languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Ethiopic and Arabic. Budge went on many missions to Egypt and Iraq while working for the Museum. Perhaps his most famous acquisitions from this time were the beautiful Papyrus of Ani, a copy of Aristotle's lost Constitution of Athens, and the Tell al-Amarna tablets.