REL 3004 Lecture : Archaeology & The Bible - Lecture 2
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Archaeology & the bible - lecture 2: flinders petrie (1853 - 1942, early life inauspicious. Stillborn infant, barely saved, dropped by a nurse. So frail he had to be homeschooled, but he wasn"t physically up to it: pioneer of arcaeological methods that persist today. Achievements in egypt, 1880-1890 excavated many cities, e. g. : tell el-amarna, capitol city of a certain pharaoh, mortuary temple of merneptah (pharaoh) at thebes, written in heiroglyphics found the merneptah stela (ca. 1212 bc: first mention of israel outside the bible learned value of ancient pottery for dating archaeological remains. Hired by the pef (palestine exploration fund) to excavate the first tell in palestine: khirbet ajlon and umm lakis proposed as sites for dig (suspected to be biblical. Surface pottery at khirbet ajlon and umm lakis indicated that neither site was older than roman times: excavated six weeks at tell el-hesi, where he established two principles for all subsequent excavations in palestine:
