Russia historian: Mikhail Artamonov

Mikhail Artamonov (5 December 1898 - 31 July 1972) was born village of Vygolovo. He was a Russian historian and archeologist, expert in Khazar studies.

In 1935 Artamonov was awarded the degree of Candidate, without having to defend a thesis. He lectured at the university without interruption, from the early 1930s as a professor.

In the first half of the 1930s Artamonov studied the steppe culture of the late period, the Khazar period and published a monograph, The History of the Khazar (1937). His work conformed to the Russian and Soviet tradition of being sympathetic to the Khazar narrative and it lauded the ancient rulers who nurtured the embryonic Kievan Russian.
Russia historian: Mikhail Artamonov

Emile Clement Amelineau (1850-1915)

Emile Clement Amelineau, French archeologist and Professor of the History of Religions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Emile Amelineau is known to have discovered Osiris’s burial place and tomb at Abydos and his skull in the necropolis in a jar. He was able to identify the names of the 16 kings more ancient perhaps than Menes.

He found tombs of four kings: Ka, Den, the Serpent King Djet and another whose name has not been deciphered.

In an effort to assist the historical investigation of Shenoute, Emile Amelineau is undertook an ambitious project to publish first a corpus of Coptic and Arabic texts all more or less relevant to Shenoute, the Shenoute’s own work. Shenoute is the founder of Coptic monasticism.
Emile Clement Amelineau (1850-1915)

Biography of William Matthew Flinders Petrie

William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942) was educated at home by his mother, the daughter of the explorer Mathew Flinders and his father a civil engineer.

In his teens he started surveying earthworks and ancient monuments, and with his father he made plans of Stonehenge.

Petrie developed a fascination with the Egyptian pyramids, both from his work at the museum and curiously from Piazzi Smyth, the author of a crackpot volume, Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid.

Petrie resolved to learn the truth about pyramids, and in 1880 he sailed to Alexandria and so began a six decade career as one of England’s greatest Egyptologists.

Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Petrie excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archeologists.

Petrie’s most important discoveries are recounted, including his unearthing of the Merneptah Stele, some of the earliest evidence of mummification and elements of Greek and Roman cultural influence in Egypt.

The Pyramid Survey 1880-82, Petrie’s first book, enhanced his reputation considerably within the narrow community of Egyptologists, despite his lack of a formal education.

In 1892 Petrie was appointed to the chair of Egyptology at University College London, which was endowed by the will of his patron Miss Amelia Edwards.
Biography of William Matthew Flinders Petrie