Letters from the Desert

Letters from the Desert

In this book anyone interested in archaeology and Ancient Egypt can experience the unique atmosphere of life on a Petrie dig.The book also includes colour reproductions of Hilda and Flinders Petrie's watercolours

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Margaret Drower is formerly Reader in Ancient History at University College London, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Departments of History and Egyptology at University College London. As a young student of Egyptology in the 1930s she is also one of the last people alive to have been taught by Petrie himself at University College London. She is the author of the definitive biography of Flinders Petrie (2nd ed, University of Wisconsin Press 1995).

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Preface
Introduction
1880-1884 From surveyor to excavator
1886-1892 In the field
1892-1896 Edwards Professor of Egyptology
1897-1921 With Hilda in Egypt
1926-1935 Excavating in Palestine.