Melbourne

omg omg omg, I found an original book from 1912 by Professor Flinders Petrie, he's like the guy who invented modern archaeology. It's typical of much archaeology of the time, called Biblical Archeology, it's interesting nonetheless.

I've read some of his essays in compendiums but not his books before. He's quite scientific about it all, unlike Carter, who I've also read, but who was an adventurer and treasure hunter , not a scientist. Carter's book was about the discovery and the objects he found.

This book is full of plates and rice paper covers, hand drawn maps and has an awesome embossed cover with hieroglyphics. The hieroglyphs look like they would have originally been in gold leaf, they are all black now.