The English archeologist Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941) discovered and excavated the most important sites of Minoan civilization in Crete and thus made the greatest single contribution to the knowledge of European and Mediterranean prehistory....

1851-1941 British Archaeologist Sir Arthur John Evans uncovered the ruins of the ancient city of Knossos in Crete, and with it a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization he named "Minoan." Evans also found thousands of tablets bearing Minoan...

EVANS, ARTHUR (1851–1941) was an English archaeologist who excavated the ruins of Knossos in Crete, center of an early civilization he called Minoan. Son of Sir John Evans, a wealthy Victorian polymath and active amateur archaeologist, Arthur...

Sir Arthur John Evans (Born July 8 1851 in Nash Mills, England and died July 11 1941) was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Evans attended Harrow School, Brasenose College, Oxford, and...

March 23rd, 1900 In Greek mythology the island of Crete was the birthplace of the supreme god Zeus, the domain of the revered royal law-giver Minos, and the home of the Minotaur, the monstrous man-headed bull that lurked at the centre of...

Evans, Robert Arthur Age 62. Of Jane St., Green Lake, passed away Wednesday afternoon, September 7, 2005 at Ripon Medical Center, Ripon. He was born January 22, 1943, in Milwaukee, a son to Robert William and Grace Ada (Cupps) Evans. Robert had been...