Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)