Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (born 1853)

Flinders Petrie

British Egyptologist (1853–1942)

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, commonly known as simply Sir Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated…