The working and intellectual biography of the great archaeologist Flinders Petrie, who was one of the founding fathers of Egyptology, will inevitably be of interest to all those involved with ancient Egypt. Here we have accounts of the research, the observations and the writing of some of the most important work conducted in Egyptology.
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“Professor Petrie's book, frank, energetic, outspoken to a degree, is the extremely interesting expression of a strong, vigorous, dominating personality, besides being an absorbing account of adventures and discoveries in the most thrilling, surprising and humanly appealing of all the sciences.”–New York Times
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W. M. Flinders Petrie, who excavated some 3000 graves in 1898-99, is regarded as the father of modern archaeology.
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