Editing Archibald Sayce (section)

===Egyptology===
From the early 1880s, Sayce spent most of his winters in Egypt due to his poor health, and became interested in the archaeology of the region.<ref name="Remini"/> Sayce was friends with [[Flinders Petrie]] and worked on cuneiform inscriptions discovered by Petrie at [[Amarna|Tel el Amarna]].<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Sayce
 | contribution = The Cuneiform Tablets 
 | year = 1894
 | title = Tell el Amarna
 | editor-last = Petrie
 | editor-first = W M Flinders
 | pages = 34–37
 | place = London
 | publisher = Methuen & co
 | url = https://archive.org/details/tellelamarna00petr/page/34/}}</ref>
He worked at [[Eileithyiaspolis|El Kab]] in Egypt with [[Somers Clarke]] in the 1900s. In his seasonal winter digs in Egypt he always hired a well-furnished boat on the [[Nile]] to accommodate his travelling library, which also enabled him to offer tea to visiting Egyptologists like the young American [[James Henry Breasted]] and his wife.<ref>{{Citation
 | last = Abt
 | first = Jeffery
 | title = American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
 | place = London, United Kingdom
 | publisher = University of Chicago Press
 | year = 2012
 | page = 44}}</ref>