Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Softcover

Drower, Margaret S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299146243 ISBN 13: 9780299146245

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

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Flinders Petrie has been called the ""Father of Modern Egyptology"" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here Margaret S. Drower, a student of Petrie's in the early 1930s, traces his life from his boyhood, when he was already a budding scholar, through his stunning career in the deserts of Egypt to his death in Jerusalem at the age of 89. Drower presents Petrie as he was: an enthusiastic eccentric, diligently plunging into the uncharted past of ancient Egypt. She tells not only of his spectacular finds, including the tombs of the first Pharaohs, the earliest alphabetic script, a Homer manuscript, and a collection of painted portraits on mummy cases, but also of Petrie's important contributions to the science of modern archaeology, such as orderly record-keeping of the progress of a dig and the use of pottery sherds in historical dating.

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Margaret S. Drower (Mrs. C. Hackforth-Jones) has retired as a lecturer in ancient history at University College, London, where she was a reader in ancient history; she is now an honorary research fellow in the Departments of History and Egyptology. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she has contributed to many books and BBC programs on the ancient Middle East.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0299146243
• ISBN 13: 9780299146245
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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