More than a hundred people gathered in Jerusalem to remember Sir Flinders Petrie, one of the fathers of modern archaeology, in the lovely, little-known cemetery on Mt. Zion where most of him was ...

Early archaeologist Flinders Petrie crawled through flooded, collapsing passages beneath a pyramid in a descent few would attempt today. His firsthand account reveals massive stone chambers hidden ...

An extensive online catalogue of artefacts unearthed by Flinders Petrie, last century, in an important trading city in Egypt will be launched soon by the British Museum When British Egyptologist ...

A truce between Jews and Arabs for thirty years is proposed by Sir Flinders Petrie, veteran English archaeologist, in the Morning Post. Sir Flinders believes that there is room for both Jew and ...

When 27-year-old British adventurer and archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie first entered the Nile Valley in 1880, he probably believed the people of Atlantis had built the Great Pyramid ...

Sir Flinders Petrie brings his 48 years’ experience gained in Egypt to bear on the problems of the Old Testament and on the correlation of the little known Palestinian archaeology with that of Egypt, ...

Recent discoveries challenge the long-held belief that the Great Pyramid of Giza has only four sides. British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie observed subtle indentations, suggesting each face is ...

The hat lay flattened and moth-eaten for more than a century in a museum box. Now, the rare 2,000-year-old headpiece (made for a Roman soldier stationed in the searing heat of Egypt) has been restored ...

ON Sir Flinders Petrie's retirement from the Edwards professorship of Egyptology in the University of London, many of his friends and admirers desired to commemorate his long tenure of that chair. It ...