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    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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  • John Flinders Petrie (April 26, 1907 – 1972) was an English mathematician. He met the geometer Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter as a student, beginning...
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    (1995). Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology (2nd ed.). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-14624-3. Petrie, W. M. Flinders (1932)...
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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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    with the portraits was beginning. In 1887, the British archaeologist Flinders Petrie started excavations at Hawara. He discovered a Roman necropolis which...
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  • Silverberg, archaeologist Stephen Williams, and author Jason Colavito. Flinders Petrie worked closely with the scientific racists Francis Galton and Karl...
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    in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...
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    the ancient Egyptians. Archaeological excavation, initially by Sir Flinders Petrie, revealed ancient mining camps and a long-lived Temple of Hathor, the...
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    period was first divided by the British Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie, who explored the site in 1894, into three sub-periods: Naqada I: Amratian...
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    that he had found all that Herakleopolis had to offer. His friend Sir Flinders Petrie, on the other hand, “...in 1879 suspected that the region already cleared...
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    different surface, called the Petrie dual. John Flinders Petrie (1907–1972) was the son of Egyptologists Hilda and Flinders Petrie. He was born in 1907 and...
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    inscriptions were discovered in the winter of 1904–1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie. These ten inscriptions, plus an eleventh published by Raymond Weill...
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    were indeed found during the excavations in this area conducted by Flinders Petrie, who confirmed the connection. It is also worth noting that, during...
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  • the latter being a neologism coined by archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie) is a town and pyramid complex in Faiyum, Egypt founded by Senusret...
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    west bank of the Nile. The cemetery was excavated in two seasons by Flinders Petrie. Tombs of almost all periods were found, but most importantly many...
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  • Look up Flinders or flinders in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flinders may refer to: Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula Flinders...
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    The first person to excavate the site was archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie in 1894. Petrie was working for the Egypt Exploration Fund (now the Egypt Exploration...
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    relative chronology of ancient Egypt. This method was invented by Flinders Petrie in 1899. It is based on the changes of vessel types and the proliferation...
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    mummified forearm of Djer or his wife was discovered by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, but was discarded by Émile Brugsch. The Abydos King List lists the...
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    Britain in 1803, Flinders was arrested by the French at the colony of Isle de France. Although Britain and France were at war, Flinders thought the scientific...
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  • excavation, the Fund sent Flinders Petrie, an English Egyptologist, who went to Tanis, a site linked to the Biblical city of Zoan. Petrie focussed much of his...
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  • around 28,000 m2 (300,000 sq ft). After excavating the site in 1888, Flinders Petrie argued that the northernmost portion of the Labyrinth had been composed...
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  • been discovered at this place. "Here," says the discoverer, William Flinders Petrie, "the ceremony described by Jeremiah 43:8–10; 'brick-kiln' (i.e. pavement...
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    (Gardiner D21). While the modern reading of the name is "Iry-Hor", Flinders Petrie, who discovered and excavated Iry-Hor's tomb at the end of the 19th...
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  • treasure hunting. William Flinders Petrie is another man who may legitimately be called the Father of Archaeology. Petrie was the first to scientifically...
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    3557. Petrie, William Matthew Flinders (1883). The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Field & Tuer. ISBN 0-7103-0709-8. Petrie, William Matthew Flinders (1892)...
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  • 1904–1941) John Shae Perring (British, 1813–1869) Hilda Petrie (Irish, 1871–1957) William Flinders Petrie (British, 1853–1942) Karl Piehl (Swedish, 1853–1904)...
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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 travel...
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    shown alive. Two representations of Nefertiti that were excavated by Flinders Petrie appear to show Nefertiti in the middle to later part of Akhenaten's...
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    Greeks when it began to grow in importance. The site was excavated by Flinders Petrie in 1900. Now called Wannina, the site lies on the west bank of the...
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