Talk:Flinders Petrie

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There seems to be an error with the dates on this page- did he die in 1939 or 1942?

But mostly, I really hope the story of Flinders Petrie's head is added to this page as it is updated. —k.a.l. 22:33, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Petrie's Head 2 family 3 Fellow of the Academy 4 Tu-tu

[edit] Petrie's Head

Because you asked for it, its here! This strange, but true fact is verifiable in the Callaway article listed in Further Reading. Em-jay-es 01:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] family

His son John Flinders Petrie was a boyhood friend and occasional collaborator of H. S. M. Coxeter, according to Siobhan Roberts's biography of the latter. —Tamfang 19:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fellow of the Academy

Google Cache of the "Neglected British History article that was published in Proceedings of the British Academy Volume VIII, Issue 28 pp 251-278. (1918) indicates he was a Fellow. Is that OR or a sensible leap of reasoning. John Vandenberg 10:36, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tu-tu

I don't know where I read it, and I can't find it, but I believe I once heard a story that Flanders Petrie surveyed the Pyamrids at Giza in a tu-tu. Why? Because the native people around there were hostile to people messing with their sacred monuments. But they would not bother "insane" people. So he did this to avoid problems with them. Perhaps it is apocyphal. Bigmac31 16:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I just and I mean just heard the same thing on a history international show so i probably is true. Cryo921 (talk) 16:24, 9 January 2008 (UTC)