Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology
Margaret S. Drower
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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Рік:
1995
Видавництво:
University of Wisconsin Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
522
ISBN 10:
0299146200
ISBN 13:
9780299146207
Серії:
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Файл:
PDF, 53.14 MB
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english, 1995