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Emma Andrews[ edit]
Emma Buttles Andrews was born in Columbus, Ohio on June 13th, 1837, to Joel and Lauretta Buttles. She married Abner L. Andrews in 1859, and gave birth to her son Charles Buttles in 1859; there is anecdotal evidence she also gave birth to a daughter who died in infancy. After her husband was admitted to a mental hospital, she became the mistress and travelling companion of the millionaire lawyer and archaeologist Theodore M. Davis, as well as an advocate for women's education. The couple made a total of 17 trips along the Nile River aboard Davis's yacht the Bedawin, mainly to the Valley of the Kings in the hopes of uncovering a new royal tomb.

Expeditions in Egypt[ edit]
In January of 1903, Andrews and Davis met with Howard Carter several times to discuss the discoveries of the tombs of Maiherpri and Thothmes IV. Andrews remarked that a leather loincloth discovered in the former tomb was some of "the most wonderful work I have seen in Egypt", and had described the discovery of the latter as a "fine success for [Davis] and Carter" for the contents found within, which Andrews records in her diary as being "a splendid sarcophagus, beautiful wall decorations and floor strewn with blue pottery more or less broken".

Andrews was present for the 1905 first opening of the tomb of Yuya, grandfather of Akhenaten and great-grandfather of Tutankhamen, which was considered to be one of the greatest discoveries of Egyptology until eclipsed by Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen, and had noted with pride in her diary that, since experts considered it unlikely for a tomb to be in this location, it was only by Davis’ thoroughness that the tomb was discovered.