Portrait of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), British archaeologist and Egyptologist. From 1881 he began excavations in Egypt, first at the Great Pyramids of Giza, followed by many of the important archaeological sites in Egypt. He made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of fieldÂexcavationÂand invented a sequenceÂdatingÂmethod that made possible the reconstruction ofÂhistory from the remains of ancientÂcultures. In 1894 he founded the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. He discovered the earliest known Egyptian reference toÂIsraelÂon the stele (a stone slab monument) ofÂMerneptah, king ofÂancient EgyptÂfrom 1213 to 1204ÂBCE. He quickly appreciated advantages of x-rays revealing information of bony structures, publishing a picture of an ancient Egyptian mummy (1898) within 3 years of the discovery by Röntgen. | |
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