Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942), William Matthew Flinders Petrie , also Sir Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist, son of an Australian explorer. After explorations at Stonehenge, he surveyed the pyramids and temples of Ghizeh in 1881-82. He excavated for the Egyptian Exploration Fund Nankratis, Am, and Defenneh. He has achieved many other important works of the kind, and issued a popular work, "Ten Years' Diggings in Egypt". He was conferred knighthood in 1923.

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