Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (3 June 1853 – 29 July 1942), commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in …

Sir Flinders Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made …

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (June 3, 1853 – July 28, 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. His work …

Sir Flinders Petrie was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist known for pioneering systematic excavation methods and the preservation of artifacts. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born …

Scroll through the decades in the life story of the remarkable William Matthew Flinders Petrie, featuring archive images and quotes by him and those who knew him.

Over the next forty years, Flinders Petrie explored and excavated over thirty sites in the Middle East. Of his most famous finds was a Stele of Mernepath at Thebes which contains the earliest known …

Petrie's archaeological training began in Britain in 1872, when he surveyed Stonehenge with his father, followed by many of England's other earthwork monuments. He first visited Egypt in 1880 to survey …

Egyptologist who also Studied ancient systems of weights and measures; Flinders excavated at Abydos, Amarna, The Pyramids at Giza, and other important Egyptian sites as well as in Palestine. Flinders …

Sir Flinders Petrie died in Jerusalem on 28 July 1942. His body was interred in the Protestant Cemetery on Mount Zion, but he donated his head (and thus his brain) to the Royal College of Surgeons of …

Flinders Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was born on June 3, 1853 in Charlton, England, near Greenwich, and passed away on July 28, 1942.