William Flinders Petrie: A controversial egyptologist

07. 07. 2017
6th international conference of exopolitics, history and spirituality

Teacher sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie He was born in England in 1853 and lived until 1942. Although perceived as a respected Egyptologist, his almost lifelong work in Egypt is divided into two parts: the one for which he is praised and recognized in scientific circles, and the one for Egyptologists and archaeologists in general. they are deliberately ignored.

In 1880, he measured the dimensions of the Pyramids at Giza in order to refute the theories that his father believed, and spread by Edinburgh astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth, that various secrets, such as Ludolf's figure or world events since the founding of the world, were hidden in its dimensions. However, his efforts had the opposite effect. Instead of obtaining proof that Smyth and a similar one like him, he discovered other interesting mathematical correlations that are known today in connection with a mathematical pyramid.

In the years to come, Flinders Petrie extended his work across Egypt and recognized other Egyptologists. Petrie examined the burial site near the Nile and the Sinai peninsula. He worked mostly on his own, but occasionally for the Egypt Exploration Fund (Amelia Edwards Foundation) and the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Howard Carter often referred to him as a trainer in his publications, although Carter, in fact, only revealed to Petrie for some time.

During his research, Petrie found many artifacts that confirmed his conviction that we are looking at an ancient technologically advanced civilization that has surpassed the technical conveniences of Petrí's time (and, by far, ours). It was he who was one of the first to point out in his diaries and books the features of stoneworking and technological processes that preclude the use of primitive tools.

As his follower and our partner point out Chris Dunn, in Petrie 's London Museum we can still find artifacts that Petrie personally documented as those key fragments of an ancient technologically advanced civilization. An example is the cores of boreholes, which show that the drilling rig was cut into hard stones (diorite, andesite, dolarite, granite) as a lump of butter. Chris Dunn presents a selection of other examples from the work of William Petrie in his book Lost pyramid builder technology.

Petrie is a timeless pioneer of modern Egyptology, archeology, and paleontology. He was the first to dig systematically, and every little part he found paid attention. It was he who first used it for X-ray archeology.

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