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Flinders Petrie has been called the “Father of Modern Egyptology”—and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archaeological methods. This fascinating biography of Petrie was first published to high acclaim in England in 1985. 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 eighty-nine. Drower combines her first-hand knowledge with Petrie’s own voluminous personal and professional diaries to forge a lively account of this influential and sometimes controversial figure.
    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. Petrie's careful academic methods often pitted him against such rival archaeologists as Amélineau, who boasted he had smashed the stone jars he could not carry away to be sold, and Maspero and Naville, who mangled a pyramid at El Kula they had vainly tried to break into.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  2. pp. ix-xiv
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  1. SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  2. pp. xv-xviii
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  1. PROLOGUE
  2. pp. xix-xxii
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  1. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
  2. pp. xxiii-xxiv
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  1. CHAPTER I The Flinders and the Petries
  2. pp. 3-12
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  1. CHAPTER II The Making of an Archaeologist
  2. pp. 13-33
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  1. CHAPTER III The Pyramid Survey (1880-82)
  2. pp. 34-64
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  1. CHAPTER IV Father of Pots": Delta Explorations (1883-6)
  2. pp. 65-104
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  1. CHAPTER V Up the Nile (1886-7)
  2. pp. 105-126
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  1. CHAPTER VI Pyramids and Portraits (1887-9)
  2. pp. 127-152
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  1. CHAPTER VII Interlude in Palestine (1889-90)
  2. pp. 153-167
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  1. CHAPTER VIII Tussles with M. Crcbaut (1890-2)
  2. pp. 168-198
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  1. CHAPTER IX University College, London (1892-7)
  2. pp. 199-230
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  1. CHAPTER X Hilda (1896- 8)
  2. pp. 231-248
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  1. CHAPTER XI Most Ancient Egypt (1899-1903)
  2. pp. 249-273
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  1. CHAPTER XII Naville and Petrie: A Clash of Personalities (1903-6)
  2. pp. 274-294
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  1. CHAPTER XIII The British School (1905-11)
  2. pp. 295-317
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  1. CHAPTER XIV Amulets in the Soup (1911- 14)
  2. pp. 318-329
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  1. CHAPTER XV The War Years (1914-19)
  2. pp. 330-347
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  1. CHAPTER XVI Egypt over the Border (1919-30)
  2. pp. 348-376
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  1. CHAPTER XVII Jubilee (1930 -33)
  2. pp. 377-397
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  1. CHAPTER XVIII Lone Syrian Shore (1934-8)
  2. pp. 397-417
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  1. CHAPTER XIX Sunset in Jerusalem
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  1. NOTES AND REFERENCES
  2. pp. 439-464
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  1. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  2. pp. 465-469
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  1. GLOSSARY OF ARABIC AND TECHNICAL WORDS
  2. p. 470
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  1. APPENDIX A
  2. p. 471
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  1. APPENDIX B
  2. pp. 472-475
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  1. APPENDIX C
  2. pp. 476-477
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  1. INDEX
  2. pp. 479-500
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