William matthew flinders petrie biography books

British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

Sir William Matthew Flinders PetrieFRS FBA ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-28)28 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts.^[3] He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his wife, Hilda Urlin.^[4] Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele,^[5] an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred.^[6] Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts.

Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.^[7] Petrie has been denounced for his pro-eu