Sir John Evans: Quick Facts


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Born November 17, 1823 • England • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died May 31, 1908 (aged 84) • Berkhamsted • England

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John Frere
British archaeologist
Prinsep's Ghat, Kolkata; the archway was erected in memory of James Prinsep.
James Prinsep
English antiquarian
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Sir Wallis Budge
British curator
Leland, John
John Leland
English antiquarian
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Percy Gardner
British archaeologist
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Bernard de Montfaucon
French scholar
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Joseph Hilarius Eckhel
Austrian numismatist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
George Smith
George Smith
British Assyriologist
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John Garstang
British archaeologist
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans
British archaeologist
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Sir Mortimer Wheeler
British archaeologist
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Geoffrey Wainwright
British archaeologist
Leonard Woolley
Sir Leonard Woolley
British archaeologist
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Sir Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist
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Sir John Hubert Marshall
British archaeologist
Mary Leakey stands beside a large fiberglass cast of ancient hominid footprints, holding the edge and looking toward the camera.
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Layard, drawing by G.F. Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Austen Henry Layard
British archaeologist