William Flinders Petrie
Attribution: The Petrie Museum
1853 - 1942
First Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College, London
| Relationship | People |
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| Associated | Amelia Edwards |
Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology.
He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna. He tutored Howard Carter, who would later discover the Tomb of Tutankhamen.
Some (including Petrie) consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele at Luxor in 1896, on which was found the first mention of the word “Israel” in any Egyptian text.
Petrie died in Jerusalem in 1942.
