Author Evanas
Submitted by miacharmed1234 on August 13, 2011
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Author Evanas
Sir Arthur John Evans was a greatly talented British archaeologist. He was born in Nash Mills, England, He attended Harrow School and finished grade 12 at Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1884 to 1901 he worked at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He had been very interested in the prehistory of Crete and then in 1901 he began the massive excavations at Knossos, there he discovered the palace of Knossos thus developing the concept of Minoan civilization. He used the structures and artifacts that he found in the eastern Mediterranean. He was also the first person to translate and define the Cretan scripts and a form of ancient Greek pictographic writing. Evans also dated the Linear A tablets,...
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