Apollo, March 1st, 2005
The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie Edited by Margaret Drower Aris and Phillips, 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 85668 748 0 Remarkable letters bring to life the marriage and careers of two staunch and intrepid pioneering Egyptologists, from fighting off robbers to nearly being buried alive, writes Gertrud Seidmann. William Matthew Flinders Petrie first went out to Egypt in 1880, aged twenty-seven, intending to make accurate measurements of the Great Pyramid, which had been the subject of a fanciful account by the Scottish Astonomer Royal. This ultimately successful enterprise was un...
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