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Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (died 1942)

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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…
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June 3

Day of the year

June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 211 days remain until the end of the year.
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