Arthur Evans
(1851-1941)
English archaeologist
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Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FREng (8 July 1851–11 July 1941) was an English archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilisation in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on the structures and artefacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Evans found that he needed to distinguish the Minoan civilisation from Mycenaean Greece. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.
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8 July 1851 Nash Mills
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11 July 1941 (aged 90) Youlbury, England
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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