Egypt
- 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...
- 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...
- Exhibition: Petrie In The Us
http://tinyurl.com/ndsoo (Rocky Mountain News) An article about the Excavating Egypt exhibition based on the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, and the items from his collection currently touring the US: "The 27-year-old British archaeologist was...
- Naukratis
The ancient Greek city of Naukratis was established somewhere in the mid to late 7th century B.C. in the Egyptian western delta. The city became a prominent trading port during the Greco-Roman period before eventually being replaced by Alexandria after...
- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
The British Museum is creating an online catalogue of Sir Flinders Petrie's finds from the ancient Egyptian Greek trading post of Naukratis. Petrie excavated the city in the mid 1880's and collected more than ten thousand artifacts from the smashed...
Egypt
Short biography of Flinders Petrie
http://jameslogancourier.org/index.php?itemid=2139
"After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years (commencing with the late Romano-British 'British Camp' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton) in attempts to understand their geometry (at 19 tackling Stonehenge), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to investigate properly how they were constructed (many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic - the English astronomer Piazzi Smith, for example, argued that the number of stones in each row represents the upward rise of civilization).On that visit he was appalled by the rate of destruction of monuments (some listed in guidebooks had been worn away completely since then) and mummies (once the treasures had been removed, the mummies were then used by Egyptians for fuelling trains and steamships - he often heard the cry "We need more steam, throw a pharoah on the fire!")."
See the above page for the full story.
There's a link to the Project Gutenberg download site, where free of charge copies of two of Petrie's works are stored:
"After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years (commencing with the late Romano-British 'British Camp' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton) in attempts to understand their geometry (at 19 tackling Stonehenge), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to investigate properly how they were constructed (many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic - the English astronomer Piazzi Smith, for example, argued that the number of stones in each row represents the upward rise of civilization).On that visit he was appalled by the rate of destruction of monuments (some listed in guidebooks had been worn away completely since then) and mummies (once the treasures had been removed, the mummies were then used by Egyptians for fuelling trains and steamships - he often heard the cry "We need more steam, throw a pharoah on the fire!")."
See the above page for the full story.
There's a link to the Project Gutenberg download site, where free of charge copies of two of Petrie's works are stored:
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7386
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7413
Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7413
- 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...
- 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...
- Exhibition: Petrie In The Us
http://tinyurl.com/ndsoo (Rocky Mountain News) An article about the Excavating Egypt exhibition based on the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie, and the items from his collection currently touring the US: "The 27-year-old British archaeologist was...
- Naukratis
The ancient Greek city of Naukratis was established somewhere in the mid to late 7th century B.C. in the Egyptian western delta. The city became a prominent trading port during the Greco-Roman period before eventually being replaced by Alexandria after...
- Catalogue Of Petrie's Finds At Naukratis
The British Museum is creating an online catalogue of Sir Flinders Petrie's finds from the ancient Egyptian Greek trading post of Naukratis. Petrie excavated the city in the mid 1880's and collected more than ten thousand artifacts from the smashed...