Petrie

Petrie, WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS, was born at Woolwich, 3d June 1853, and educated privately. His earliest explorations bore fruit in his Stonehenge (1880), and he next turned his attention to the pyramids and temples of Ghizeh (book, 1887), subsequently, with the aid of the Egypt Exploration Fund, to the mounds of Said—the Scripture Zoar, the forgotten city of Naukratis, Am, and Defennel. His Memoirs on Tanis (1885-89), on Naukratis (1886), on Tel el Hesy, the site of Lachish (1891), on Medum (1892), and on Ten Years' Diggings (1892), are all important.