Flinders Petrie : A Life in Archaeology Paperback / softback
by Margaret S. Drower
Part of the Wisconsin Studies in Classics series
Paperback / softback
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Flinders Petrie has been called the ""Father of Modern Egyptology"" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods.
Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of 89.
Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt.
She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie's important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:522 pages, 90 halftones
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/04/1995
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- ISBN:9780299146245
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:522 pages, 90 halftones
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:30/04/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780299146245
