William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942),British archaeologist and Egyptologist,commonly known as Flinders Petrie. During the period 1875-80 he surveyed sites in Britain,including Stonehenge. From 1881 he began excavations in Egypt at the Great Pyramids of Giza. He then excavated the great temple at Tanis (1884),the city of Naucratis (1885) and sites in the Fayyum region (1888-90). Petrie discovered that there had been Greek colonies in Egypt. He also devised a way of dating finds by the design of the pottery found. In 1894 he founded the British School of Archaeology in Egypt. Photographed in around the late 1880s | |
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