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    Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-28)28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British...
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  • literature. Their only child was William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the Egyptologist. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Petrie, William" . Dictionary of National Biography...
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    Naqada period was first divided by the British Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie, who explored the site in 1894, into three sub-periods: Naqada...
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    Kahun (the latter being a neologism coined by archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie) is a workmen's village in Faiyum, Egypt founded by Senusret...
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  • draftsperson. Petrie was born on April 26, 1907, in Hampstead, London. He was the only son of the renowned Egyptologists Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie and...
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    by the writer Amelia Edwards. The first Edwards Professor, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, conducted many important excavations, and in 1913 he sold...
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    Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland...
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  • is a method of seriation developed by the Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. By linking styles of pottery with different time periods,...
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    archaeologically significant, it was found in 1903 by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie during excavation of Kom el-Sultan in Abydos, Egypt. It depicts...
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    ISBN 978-0-8021-1703-8. William Matthew Flinders Petrie: Illahun, Kahun and Gurob. 1889–1890. Nutt, London 1891 (Onlineversion). William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Guy Brunton...
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  • London, where he studied under the noted egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. James was also a member of the Folklore Society, serving as...
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  • Phoenicians settled in the site. The site was discovered by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie in 1886; it was then known by natives as Qasr Bint al-Yahudi...
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    Ferdinand Mariette between 1860 and 1864, and subsequently by William Matthew Flinders Petrie from 1883 to 1886.[clarification needed] The work was taken...
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    Hilda Mary Isabel, Lady Petrie (née Urlin; 1871–1957), was an Irish-born British Egyptologist and wife of Sir Flinders Petrie, the father of scientific...
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  • Egyptologists making excavations in Egypt today. English Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie, known as the "father of Egyptian archaeology", introduced...
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    impracticality of building pyramids in water, the British Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie hypothesizes that Herodotus wrote of these statues during a...
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  • Retrieved 19 November 2007. E.P. Uphill, "A Bibliography of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942)," Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1972 Vol. 31:...
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    Reprint edition (5 Feb 2004) ISBN 978-0-14-044413-1 p.70 [1] William Matthew Flinders Petrie, A History of Egypt. Volume 3: From the XIXth to the XXXth...
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    and 1902 under the supervision of British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. Further exploration of the tomb was undertaken in 1928 by...
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    Abhandlungen), ISBN 3-447-02677-4, O. Harrassowitz (1987), p. 124 William Matthew Flinders Petrie: The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties. Cambridge University...
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    Published by Trustees of the British Museum, 1971, p.146 William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Edward Russell Ayrton, Charles Trick Currelly, Arthur Edward...
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    Al Fayyum Egypt in 1914 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and is now in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology—Petrie dated it to c. 800 BC. It was...
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    Mariette, Auguste, Abydos, ii. and iii. William Flinders Petrie, Abydos, i. and ii. William Flinders Petrie, Royal Tombs, i. and ii. Wikivoyage has a...
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    sphinx was discovered in 1912 by the British archeologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, during an excavation of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis...
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    region. The major excavations of the British Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, conducted from 1907 to 1912, uncovered the majority of the...
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    Age". Levant. 46: 58–88. doi:10.1179/0075891413Z.00000000031. William Matthew Flinders Petrie; Olga Tufnell (1930). Beth-Pelet 1: Tell Fara. British School...
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    relief from Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, found by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, (now in the Petrie Museum). Sitamun is among a handful of figures that...
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    Royal Tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab," In: Archeo-Nil 18 (2008), p. 39. William Matthew Flinders Petrie. The royal tombs of the first dynasty: 1900. Part I (= Memoir...
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    History of Achaemenid Egypt List of Iranian artifacts abroad William Matthew Flinders Petrie, A History of Egypt. Volume 3: From the XIXth to the XXXth...
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    Power Plant Battle of Suez List of cities and towns in Egypt William Matthew Flinders Petrie, A History of Egypt. Volume 3: From the XIXth to the XXXth...
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