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Sir Flinders Petrie by Valerie M. Fargo ir Flinders Petrie is a seminal figure in Near Eastern archaeology. Renowned for his great industry (in the course of over half a century of work he excavated fifty sites and published nearly one hundred books) and intellectual ability (he has been called "the greatest archaeological genius of modem times"), he is generally recognized as having singlehandedly established Near Eastern archaeology as a scientific discipline. William Matthew Flinders Petrie was born on June 3, 1853. As a child he suffered from chronic asthma and was too weak to attend school regularly; in fact, he never received any formal training. His mother, who was a linguist, attempted to teach him Latin and Greek, but this was a marked failure. He later claimed that once he had finished a lesson, he forgot it. He was a curious child, however, and read a wide range of books. He also took long walks, exploring the countryside, and he spent a lot of time studying the exhibits at the British Museum. From his father, a civil engineer, Petrie learned planning and drawing, and from his mother he developed an interest in collecting coins, minerals, and fossils. He attributed his i

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Author

Valerie M. Fargo

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press (ISSN 0006-0895)

Published

1984

Language

AF

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)