A History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the Xvith Dynasty

A History of Egypt #1

by William Matthew Flinders Petrie

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1895 edition by Methuen & Co., London.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS, known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna. Some consider his most famous discovery to be that of the Merneptah Stele. Petrie developed the system of dating layers based on pottery and ceramic findings.

Reviews

[Chrysostomos Roumpas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very informative, when it comes to understanding the Pharaohs. Lacking in all other aspects. For example, the way of life of the average Egyptian and the events that happened during this specific time period. Furthermore the writer lacks the understanding of sentence structure, as he creates sentences 6 lines long and doesn't make them understandable at all.