Egypt
Heritage Key (Charlotte Booth)
- William Flinders Petrie
Heritage Key This is not an article about Petrie but it is a short biography (excerpt below) with links to relevant articles on Heritage Key about Petrie and about the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, UK. Sir William Flinders Petrie was...
- Lowe Art Museum Shows "excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries" From The Petrie Museum
Art Knowledge News Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,University College, London, is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from June 28th through November 2nd, 2008. The major traveling exhibition...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt
Santa Fe New Mexican (Paul Weideman) All regular visitors to the blog will know that I take up any opportunity that offers to plug the Petrie Museum of Archaeology in London (U.K.). However, today I actually have a good excuse - the Excavating Egypt exhibition...
- Sir William Flinders Petrie
http://tinyurl.com/zgdjl (mlive.com)A feature on the mlive website to coincide with the Petrie exhibition at the Flint Institute of Art. This piece focuses mainly on Petrie himself, looking at his early interest in archeaology, how he came to work in...
- Petrie - The Real Indiana Jones
http://tinyurl.com/af3mp (The Times Argus)A nice article produced on the back of the travelling exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, which is now at the Albany Instutute...
Egypt
Exhibition: Framing the Archaeologist at the Petrie
Heritage Key (Charlotte Booth)I haven't seen this yet so I'm looking forward to a visit in the not too distant future:
Amidst the charming Victorian cases of jewellery along the walls of the larger room in the Petrie Museum is the “Framing the Archaeologist” exhibition (follow their blog here); a series of framed photographs from 1880 – 1900 categorised into excavation sites of Petrie; Giza 1800-1883, Delta sites 1883-86, and Al Arabar Al Madfunda (Abydos) 1899-1900. Each framed image is accompanied by a quote from a contemporary report or letter, giving some insight into the people depicted and their activities. One of the first pictures in the exhibition is the fabulous image of a young Petrie leaning casually against the wall of his “tomb with a view” where he stayed whilst excavating at Giza. This has always been one of my favourite images of Petrie, bearing little resemblance to the formal portraits of a bearded gentleman we are all familiar with. A young archaeologist with his life ahead of him.
Following the images around we are introduced to Sheikh Seidi of the Giza area, which emphasises the importance of village elders when hiring workers for work.
- William Flinders Petrie
Heritage Key This is not an article about Petrie but it is a short biography (excerpt below) with links to relevant articles on Heritage Key about Petrie and about the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, UK. Sir William Flinders Petrie was...
- Lowe Art Museum Shows "excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries" From The Petrie Museum
Art Knowledge News Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology,University College, London, is on view at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, from June 28th through November 2nd, 2008. The major traveling exhibition...
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt
Santa Fe New Mexican (Paul Weideman) All regular visitors to the blog will know that I take up any opportunity that offers to plug the Petrie Museum of Archaeology in London (U.K.). However, today I actually have a good excuse - the Excavating Egypt exhibition...
- Sir William Flinders Petrie
http://tinyurl.com/zgdjl (mlive.com)A feature on the mlive website to coincide with the Petrie exhibition at the Flint Institute of Art. This piece focuses mainly on Petrie himself, looking at his early interest in archeaology, how he came to work in...
- Petrie - The Real Indiana Jones
http://tinyurl.com/af3mp (The Times Argus)A nice article produced on the back of the travelling exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London, which is now at the Albany Instutute...