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Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts.Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings. Petrie has been denounced for his pro-eugenics views; he was a dedicated believer in the superiority of the Northern peoples over the Latinate and Southern peoples.
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Published 1974
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Reprint of the 1935 ed. published by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London, which was issued as Publication no. 57 of the British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research account, forty-first year, 1935.
Includes bibliographical reference and index. :
15 pages, 45 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm :
0913484032
9780913484036