Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel By William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Publisher Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Publication date 1911 Subjects Israel Egypt Jews History Ancient Egypt History Middle East Egypt History Middle East Israel History Jewish Social Science Archaeology Notes This is an OCR reprint There may be typos or missing text There are no illustrations or indexes When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million Books. com where you can select from than a million books for free You can also preview the book there Ancient Egypt and Ancient IsraelSir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS known as Flinders Petrie was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt such as Naukratis Tanis Abydos and Amarna Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.