Egypt
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt Going To Santa Fe
Dallas Morning News More than 220 Egyptian artifacts from a collection that never before has left England will be on display at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe from Sept. 1 through Jan. 6. "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie...
- Exhibitions: Great Discoveries From The Petrie Museum
http://tinyurl.com/2kh9z6 (masslive.com) It is nice to see that the labouriously named exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is still getting good publicity as it continues on its travels around...
- 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...
- Albany Museum Displays Petrie Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/bo3ve (Pressconnect.com)"The Albany Institute of History & Art, with GE as a sponsor, will host a world-class traveling exhibition, beginning Jan. 21, showcasing important Egyptian treasures from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology...
- Reader In The Sands Of Time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html "He liked to work in his underpants and ate only from tins, but Flinders Petrie changed the face of archaeology". Joyce Tyldesley writing about Sir William Flinders Petrie, who transformed archaeological...
Egypt
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 of History Art: "In the late 1880s, William Matthew Flinders Petrie went to Egypt to measure the pyramids.While getting established as an archaeologist, the young adventurer lived in an abandoned tomb at the Giza necropolis, where he used a hammock for a bed. In one feat of excavation, he swung down 25 feet on a rope ladder and squeezed through a pyramid doorway into a flooded burial chamber. With only a candle to light the pitch-black walls, he waded through fetid water filled with floating coffins, skulls and other debris. Shortly after, his sensational finds made him the talk of London.Petrie went on to lead excavations at many of the most important sites in Egypt, including Hawara, Abydos and Amarna . . . . He's also credited with transforming archaeology from a treasure hunt to a real science. " See the full story for details of the exhibition.
Details of the permanent collection of Petrie's discoveries, together with an online catalogue of the collection, can be found at:
Details of the permanent collection of Petrie's discoveries, together with an online catalogue of the collection, can be found at:
http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt Going To Santa Fe
Dallas Morning News More than 220 Egyptian artifacts from a collection that never before has left England will be on display at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe from Sept. 1 through Jan. 6. "Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie...
- Exhibitions: Great Discoveries From The Petrie Museum
http://tinyurl.com/2kh9z6 (masslive.com) It is nice to see that the labouriously named exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology is still getting good publicity as it continues on its travels around...
- 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...
- Albany Museum Displays Petrie Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/bo3ve (Pressconnect.com)"The Albany Institute of History & Art, with GE as a sponsor, will host a world-class traveling exhibition, beginning Jan. 21, showcasing important Egyptian treasures from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology...
- Reader In The Sands Of Time
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1814247,00.html "He liked to work in his underpants and ate only from tins, but Flinders Petrie changed the face of archaeology". Joyce Tyldesley writing about Sir William Flinders Petrie, who transformed archaeological...