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Title: Methods & Aims in Archaeology

Author: W. M. Flinders Petrie

Release date: September 26, 2020 [eBook #63311]
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Language: English

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METHODS AND AIMS
IN
ARCHAEOLOGY

Fig. 1. Chain of boys clearing the Osireion at Abydos.

41 feet deep.

METHODS & AIMS
IN
ARCHAEOLOGY

BY

W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
HON. D.C.L., LL.D., LIT.D., PH.D. : F.R.S. ; HON. F.S.A. (SCOT.) :

Member of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute;
Member of the Society of Northern Antiquaries;
Member of the Roman Society of Anthropology;
Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College, London.

WITH 66 ILLUSTRATIONS

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904

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