INTRODUCTION
Arthur John Evans was a British archeologist that discovered The Palace of Knossos, in Creta.
ABOUT HIS LIFE
He was born in 1851 (Nash Mills). He studied in the universities of Oxford and Gotinga and he made some excavations in Italy, Scandinavia and The Balcanic peninsula. Then he went to Creta because he wanted to discovered the civilization that existed before the Mycenaean civilization.
Between the years 1900 and 1906 he unearthed The Palace of Knossos and because of its construction, he related it with the palace of Minos. Thats the reason why he called to his finds `The Minoan civilization´.
Arthur John Evans was a British archeologist that discovered The Palace of Knossos, in Creta.
ABOUT HIS LIFE
He was born in 1851 (Nash Mills). He studied in the universities of Oxford and Gotinga and he made some excavations in Italy, Scandinavia and The Balcanic peninsula. Then he went to Creta because he wanted to discovered the civilization that existed before the Mycenaean civilization.
Between the years 1900 and 1906 he unearthed The Palace of Knossos and because of its construction, he related it with the palace of Minos. Thats the reason why he called to his finds `The Minoan civilization´.
He dead in 1941, of depression.
OTHER DISCOVERIES
He discovered 3000 Minoan tablets with two types of writting: linear A and linearB. The linear B is an old Greek dialect.
OTHER DISCOVERIES
He discovered 3000 Minoan tablets with two types of writting: linear A and linearB. The linear B is an old Greek dialect.
STATUE
There is a statue of him in the Palace of Knossos made of bronze.
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