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Name: Arthur John Evans, Sir
Birth Date: July 8, 1851
Death Date: July 11, 1941
Place of Birth: Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, England
Place of Death: Oxford, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: archaeologist, curator

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Biography of Arthur John Evans, Sir
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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....


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Sir Arthur John Evans Summary
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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...
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Evans, Arthur Summary
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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...
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Evans, Sir Arthur (John)
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(born July 8, 1851, Nash Mills, Hertfordshire, Eng.—died July 11, 1941, Youlbury, near Oxford, Oxfordshire) British archaeologist. Son of the archaeologist Sir John Evans, he served as a curator (1884–1908) at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum....
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Arthur Evans Information
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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...


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History Today
Arthur Evans begins to dig in Crete.(Brief Article)
03/01/2000: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Evans, Robert Arthur
09/11/2005: 195 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
 


 

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