In Popular Culture
- The novelist H. Rider Haggard dedicated his novel Morning Star (1910) to Budge.
- Budge is mentioned briefly in the movie Stargate as the author of several outdated books on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Budge is frequently mentioned, though he appears "on-stage" only once, in the Amelia Peabody series of mystery novels by "Elizabeth Peters" (Egyptologist Dr. Barbara Mertz). In Amelia's husband Emerson's dogmatic opinion, Budge is a poor archaeologist and an unscrupulous plunderer of Egypt. The same novels also refer to Flinders Petrie, who never appears on-stage, as a scrupulous, scientific archaeologist and rival to Emerson. Dr. Mertz refers in passing to some of Petrie's eccentric personal habits, but makes no mention of his racist beliefs.
- The children's writer E. Nesbit dedicated her classic novel The Story of the Amulet (1906) to Budge.
- Budge appeared as a major character in the 2006 History Channel docudrama The Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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