Keith Robert DeVries (January 2, 1937–July 16, 2006) was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As an excavator, DeVries worked at Ischia and Corinth. His primary work was at Gordium; there he directed the excavations from 1977 to 1987. DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He would teach at Pennsylvania for his career, as well as work at its Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section. DeVries died of cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2006.
Works (incomplete)
- (Editor) From Athens to Gordion: the papers of a memorial symposium for Rodney S. Young, held at the University Museum, the third of May, 1975 (Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980).
References
- Obituary by Jeremy Pearce in The New York Times July 29, 2006.
- Penn Museum obituary
