{"product_id":"flinders-petrie","title":"Flinders Petrie","description":"Flinders Petrie has been called the \"\"Father of Modern Egyptology\"\" - and indeed he is one of the pioneers of modern archeological methods. Here 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 89. 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.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55554982871384,"sku":"9780299146245","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299146245_c3e7f807-426d-447a-b376-012612e65210.jpg?v=1778676366","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/flinders-petrie","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}