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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515829526801,"sku":"GOR005832259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49709351502097,"sku":"CIN0299146243G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415608918289,"sku":"CIN0299146243VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103285637393,"sku":"CIN0299146243A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52484098949393,"sku":"NLS9780299146245","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0299146243.jpg?v=1763485359"},{"product_id":"nubia-book-margaret-s-drower-9780582164406","title":"Nubia","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49635144794385,"sku":"GOR003129992","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639826587921,"sku":"GOR005937184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52774416318737,"sku":"GOR005556815","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0582164400.jpg?v=1751293522"},{"product_id":"flinders-petrie-book-margaret-s-drower-9780575036673","title":"Flinders Petrie","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlinders 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 Amelineau, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49864871117073,"sku":"GOR003519802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49871760720145,"sku":"GOR002318821","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0575036672.jpg?v=1750699528"},{"product_id":"letters-from-the-desert-the-correspondence-of-flinders-and-hilda-petrie-book-margaret-s-drower-9780856687488","title":"Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie","description":"Flinders Petrie began his long association with ancient Egypt  and the Near East when he went to Giza to survey the pyramids in  1880. Until his death in 1942, he dug almost continuously. During  his long career Petrie revolutionised Egyptian archaeology but  this book is not about his scientific work or finds, which are  published elsewhere. The letters and journals that make up this  book have been selected by Margaret Drower for the vivid picture  they paint of living in Egypt and Palestine over sixty years.  They describe Petrie's austere approach to excavating and life on  a dig where creature comforts were non-existent. Petrie married  in 1897 and many of Hilda's accounts of workmen, villagers and  dig life are just as fascinating and vibrant. 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