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Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 (1900)

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942 · [London] : Religious Tract Society · leaf 125

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118 TEN YEARS’ DIGGING IN EGYPT attached any significance to fire-making. In this town I found several sticks with the burnt holes made by … 88. FLInT Toots. 1:6. drilling fire, as many races do at present: the Egyptians probably did this with the bow-drill, with which they were so familiar, and of which specimens were found here.

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