Tell El Amarna (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1333910282 ISBN 13: 9781333910280

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Tell El Amarna

I reached the Ghizeh Museum with 132 cases. The objects brought to England were exhibited in the autumn. The representative collection of all the objects was presented to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and will be exhibited in the new museum there, forming the most complete collection of the work of Akhenaten.

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About this title

Book Description:

A pioneering Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Published in 1894, this richly illustrated excavation report from Tell el-Amarna features fragments of cuneiform tablets that contain diplomatic correspondence from the fourteenth century BCE, alongside other important artefacts.

About the Author:

W. M. Flinders Petrie, who excavated some 3000 graves in 1898-99, is regarded as the father of modern archaeology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1333910282
• ISBN 13: 9781333910280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103