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Book SynopsisA pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (18531942) made Near Eastern archaeology a much more rigorous and scientific discipline. This 1906 account of archaeological work in the Sinai Peninsula, with additional chapters by Charles T. Currelly (18761957), describes the discovery of the Proto-Sinaitic script at Serabit el-Khadim.
Table of ContentsPreface; 1. On the Sinai road; 2. The Bedawy and the desert; 3. Wady Maghareh and its sculptures; 4. The miners of Wady Maghareh; 5. Serabit el Khadem and the bethels; 6. The temple of Serabit; 7. The history and purpose of the temple; 8. The mining expeditions; 9. The lesser and foreign monuments; 10. The altars and the offerings; 11. The mines of Serabit el Khadem; 12. The revision of chronology; 13. The worship at Serabit el Khadem; 14. The conditions of the exodus; 15. Tor to Maghareh; 16. Gebel Musa and the Nawamis; 17. Mount Sinai and Gebel Serbal; 18. Tor to Aqabah; Index.
