Flinders Petrie

Portrait of Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942), British archaeologist and Egyptologist. He made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating He made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. He discovered the earliest known Egyptian reference to Israel on the stele (a stone slab monument) of Merneptah, king of He quickly appreciated the advantages of x-rays revealing information of bony structures, He quickly appreciated the advantages of x-rays revealing information of bony structures, publishing a picture of an ancient Egyptian mummy (1898) within 3 years of the discovery by Röntgen.