The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108066129)

A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. His meticulous recording of artefacts and his sequence dating of pottery types found in Egypt and Palestine made Near Eastern archaeology a more rigorous and scientific discipline. This fully illustrated follow-up report of 1901 on the royal tombs at Abydos, capital of Upper Egypt, covers the early dynastic period (c.3100-c.2700 BCE). Petrie gives detailed descriptions of eight tombs and the associated finds. A chapter on the inscriptions is provided by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934). Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career for both specialists and non-specialists. His preliminary report, The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty (1900), and the three-part Abydos (1902-4) are among those works also reissued in this series.

Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
ISBN-10: 1108066127
ISBN-13: 9781108066129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2013
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.38d