When Petrie died newspapers dwelt on his role as proving the truth of the Bible (as a way of getting public support for excavating in Palestine). Others emphasised his role as archaeologist. Although archaeology had been his life, Petrie regarded himself as a historian.
His best work was done in little more than 20 years – 1880-1903:
He did not necessarily have the most spectacular Egyptian finds, but artefacts discovered by him went to museums across the globe. He was also responsible for mentoring and training a whole generation of Egyptologists and published over a hundred books, and more than a thousand articles and reviews. He dug over fifty different sites, in the Delta and the Nile Valley, in Sinai and in the south of Palestine.
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Sir Flinders Petrie's tombstone bears the Ankh symbol, a symbol for life. The same symbol can be seen on Amelia Edwards tombstone.
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