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Item Details
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FLINDERS PETRIE
A LIFE IN ARCHAEOLOGY |
| By: |
Margaret S. Drower |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£30.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299146243 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299146245 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 April, 1995 |
| Series: |
Wisconsin Studies in Classics |
| Pages: |
522 |
| Description: |
Flinders Petrie has been called the "Father of Modern Egyptology" and was one of the pioneers of modern archaeology. Here Drower, a student of his in the 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, to his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
90 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
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Non-returnable |
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