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Gray Johnson Poole
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LOCATION: Alhambra, CA, United States

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Freelance writer. Author of Architects and Man's Skyline; coauthor of Men Who Dig Up History and others.

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Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a sequence dating method that made possible the reconstruction of history from the remains of ancient cultures. He was knighted in 1923.…
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