Seventy Years In Archaeology

W.M. Flinders Petrie, who excavated some 3000 graves in 1898-1899, is regarded as one of the fathers of modern Egyptology.

• I. PREPARATION, 1853-1880 II. THE PYRAMIDS, 1880-I 882 III. IN THE DELTA, 1883-1886 IV. UP THE NILE, 1886-1887 V. IN THE FAYUM, 1887-1890 VI. PALESTINE AND MEYDUM, 1891-1891 VII. AMARNA, 1891-1892 VIII. KOPTOS, NAQADA, AND THEBES, 1893-1897 IX. DESHASHEH, DENDEREH, HU, ABYDOS, 1897-1912. X. EHNASYA, SINAI, YEHUDIYEH, 1912-1916 XI. RIFEH, MEMPHIS, QURNEH, HAWARA, 1906-1911 XII. TARKHAN, LAHUN, THE WAR, 1911-1914 XIII. LAHUN, SEDMENT, OXYRHYNKHOS, QAU, 1919-1926. XIV. EGYPT OVER THE BORDER, IN THE NEGEB, 1926-1931