Quote of the day
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
Flinders Petrie
Born: June 3, 1853
Died: July 28, 1942 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA, commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.
Known for:
- The Pyramids And Temples Of Gizeh (1883)
- The Religion of Ancient Egypt (1895)
- Seventy years in archaeology (1931)
- The Arts & Crafts of Ancient Egypt (1909)
- Scarabs and cylinders with names (1917)







