Grafton Elliot Smith

Anatomist; from October 1900 professor of anatomy at the Government School of Medicine, Cairo

Dates: 1871-1937 (source: Archaeopress, Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia (sample) )
Chapters: Prologue: A Stone in a Jar

What the film says

Found the El Amrah bladder stone at the start of the twentieth century, having gone to the cemetery to look at ancient brains.

Watch 0:31 in the film Prologue: A Stone in a Jar
His 1926 recollection of the first Egyptian grave he looked into is quoted in his own words.

Watch 0:43 in the film Prologue: A Stone in a Jar

October 1900: Grafton Elliot Smith takes up the chair of anatomy at the Government School of Medicine, Cairo. timeline
1901 (1902 in one source): Elliot Smith finds the bladder stone in the first grave he examines at El Amrah. disputed timeline
1901: Elliot Smith presents the El Amrah stone to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. timeline
1926: Elliot Smith publishes 'The diversions of an anatomist in Egypt', recalling the boy's skeleton and its stone. timeline