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Flinders Petrie

British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

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About Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his Irish-born wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts.

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Occupation: Egyptologist, archaeologist, writer, translator
Position held: professor
Citizenship: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born: June 3, 1853
Died: July 28, 1942

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