Arthur Evans
English archaeologist
Died when: 90 years 3 days (1080 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FREng (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization 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 artifacts 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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