Sir Flinders Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made …

In 1913, Petrie sold his large collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College, London, where it is now housed in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (June 3, 1853 – July 28, 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. His work …

Petrie revolutionized archaeological methodology through his emphasis on careful excavation, stratigraphic dating, and artifact analysis. His development of seriation, or the chronological ordering …

Jul 29, 2025 · Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) brought revolutionary change to the study of antiquity by introducing strict excavation protocols and detailed documentation practices. He …

Join Petrie with a collection of some of his most roar-some adventures into the mysterious beyond.

Petrie is very gentle and kind-hearted but is also naive and nervous. He panics easily, and fears doing anything new or dangerous; thus he is often dependent on his friends for support and …

The son of immigrants, Milton Petrie opened his first clothing store during the Great Depression. Over the next fifty years, he built the Petrie Stores Corporation into a national retail powerhouse.

Mar 24, 2025 · Among the many expeditions that sought to unravel its mysteries, the work of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries stands out as particularly …

Petrie's archaeological training began in Britain in 1872, when he surveyed Stonehenge with his father, followed by many of England's other earthwork monuments. He first visited Egypt in 1880 to survey …