Greatest Britons: Sir William Flinders Petrie I – GB 090622

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/gb%20090522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1371" src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/gb%20090522.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://gab.com/SvenLongshanks" target="_blank"><strong>Sven Longshanks</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.radioalbion.com/search/label/Max%20Musson?&amp;max-results=5" target="_blank"><strong>Max Musson</strong></a> discuss the life of the world renowned archaeologist and father of Egyptology.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sir Flinders Petrie was the first archaeologist to measure the Great Pyramid and made the most accurate survey of Stonehenge ever. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He created standards for archaeological digs that are now followed by all and taught Howard Carter who went on to discover King Tut’s tomb.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sir Flinders Petrie became fascinated by race as he noticed that the racial types differed between the heights of civilisation and when they began to collapse. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">He worked with Sir Francis Galton and Karl Pearson to document the different racial types he found and also devised a way to define race and racial aptitude by skull size.</span></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-family: verdana;">Presented by Sven Longshanks and Max Musson</span></em></p><p><strong><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: verdana;">Greatest Britons: Sir William Flinders Petrie I – GB 090622</span></strong></p><br /><audio controls="" preload="none"> <source src="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/GB%20090622.mp3" type="audio/mp3"></source> Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. Here is a <a href="https://archive.radioalbion.com/GB/GB%20090622.mp3">link to