Egypt
Tombs of the Courties and Oxyrhynkhos
I have blogged this document before but I think it has been a couple of years. The graves occupants seem to have moved during burial definitely one of my favorites by Sir Flinders Petrie.
http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf
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Abzu
http://www.etana.org/abzu/ Please see the following update and request for feedback re the excellent Abzu service, from Chuck Jones. Abzu is an excellent resource for Near Eastern (and Egyptian) documents, with authors like Sir William Flinders Petrie...
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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...
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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...
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Gizeh And Rifeh
This 1907 publication by Flinders Petrie is one of my favorites and is highlighted with the discovery of an intact middle kingdom tomb of two brothers named Nekht Ankh and Khnum Nekht at a site called Rifeh. Their entire funerary ensemble including the...
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Tombs Of The Kings Of The First Dynasty
Here is an article on the burial of the kings of Egypt's first dynasty the article mentions the sacrifices of those kings courtiers to serve them in the afterlife. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html The article mentions...
Egypt