Flinders Petrie
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1853-06-03
- Died
- 1942-07-28
- Works
- 47
Top works
- Egypt and Israel,
- Egyptian Tales Second Series
- Egyptian Tales First Series
- Religion of Ancient Egypt
- Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri - First Series Ivth to Xiith Dynasty
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,071x
- Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
· 2019 · cited 5,950x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,843x
- Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2019 · cited 3,115x
- A Maximization Technique Occurring in the Statistical Analysis of Probabilistic Functions of Markov Chains
· 1970 · cited 2,954x
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Key facts
- Born
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie , ( 1853-06-03 ) 3 June 1853, Charlton , Kent , England
- Died
- 29 July 1942 (1942-07-29) (aged 89), Jerusalem , Mandatory Palestine
- Resting place
- Mount Zion Cemetery
- Known for
- Proto-Sinaitic script , Merneptah Stele , pottery seriation
- Spouse
- Hilda Urlin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1896 )
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society Huxley Memorial Medal (1906)
- Fields
- Egyptology
- Doctoral students
- Howard Carter
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Key dates
- Born
- 3 June 1853
- Died
- 28 July 1942
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Matthew
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Charlton
- Place of death
- Jerusalem
- Spouse
- Hilda Petrie
- Occupation
- historian
- Position held
- professor
- Employer
- University College London
Article
Flinders Petrie by Philip Alexius de Laszlo, 1934 (detail) The distinctive black-topped Egyptian pottery of the Predynastic period associated with Flinders Petrie's Sequence dating system, Petrie Museum
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA ((1853-06-03)3 June 1853 – (1942-07-29)29 July 1942), 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 many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt in conjunction with his Irish-born wife, Hilda Urlin. Some consider his most famous discovery that of the Merneptah Stele, an opinion with which Petrie himself concurred. Undoubtedly at least as important is his 1905 discovery and correct identification of the character of the Proto-Sinaitic script, the ancestor of almost all alphabetic scripts.
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1853 births1942 deaths19th-century British archaeologists20th-century British archaeologistsAcademics of University College LondonArchaeologists from LondonArchaeology and racismBurials at Mount Zion (Protestant)English AnglicansEnglish EgyptologistsFellows of the British AcademyFellows of the Royal Society