Flinders Petrie
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Flinders Petrie

A Life in Archaeology

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
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Flinders Petrie

A Life in Archaeology

About this book

Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology"—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. 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 eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie's own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure.
    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. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Sources and Acknowledgements
  3. Prologue
  4. Preface to the Second Edition
  5. I. The Flinders and the Petries
  6. II. The Making of an Archaeologist (1853-80)
  7. III. The Pyramid Survey (1880-82)
  8. IV. "Father of Pots": Delta Explorations (1883-6)
  9. V. Up the Nile (1886-7)
  10. VI. Pyramids and Portraits (1887-9)
  11. VII. Interlude in Palestine (1889-90)
  12. VIII. Tussles with M. Grebaut (1890-2)
  13. IX. University College, London (1892-7)
  14. X. Hilda (1896-8)
  15. XI. Most Ancient Egypt (1899-1903)
  16. XII. Naville and Petrie: A Clash of Personalities (1903)
  17. XIII. The British School (1906-11)
  18. XIV. Amulets in the Soup (1911-14)
  19. XV. The War Years (1914-19)
  20. XVI. Egypt over the Border (1919-30)
  21. XVII. Jubilee (1930-33)
  22. XVIII. Lone Syrian Shore (1934-8)
  23. XIX. Sunset in Jerusalem (1938-42)
  24. Notes and References