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In few kinds of work are the results so directly dependent on the personality of the worker as they are in excavating. The old saying that a man finds what he looks for in a subject, is too true; or if he has not enough insight to ensure finding what he looks for, it is at least sadly true that he does not find anything that he does not look for.

Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie

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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.

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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)

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