(William Matthew) (1853-1942) English archeologist who excavated sites in Egypt (the pyramids at Gîza, the temple at Tanis, the Greek city of Naucratis in the Nile delta, Tell el Amarna, Naquada, Abydos, and Memphis) and Palestine from 1880.
Sir William Matthew Flinders, 1853, 1942, engl. Archäologe; forschte in Stonehenge (England), später in Ägypten; bediente sich wiss. Ausgrabungsmethoden.