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Their father The Reverend Arthur Benoni Evans was Headmaster of Market Bosworth School in Leicestershire. Her nephew Sir Arthur Evans is the best known of the family as the archaeologist / excavator of Knossos in Crete. Her niece, Dame Joan Evans, was a distinguished historian esp. of French art/architecture. Details of most of these may be found in The Dictionary of National Biography.
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This catalogue of more than 300 gems and sealings from Delmatia brings together the 19th Century collections of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson and Sir Arthur Evans. The major part of this catalogue is devoted to the gems collected by Arthur Evans before he began excavating in Knossos. His collection is now scattered in Europe and America, but a substantial part of it remains in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, where he was Keeper. The Ashmolean ... had the sealings which he made from the gems, and using them, it has been possible to trace and identify more of the original gems. The major part of this catalogue is devoted to describing engraved gems which Sir Arthur Evans acquired in Delmatia, Yugoslavia, during his time spent in the Balkans from 1875 to 1882. Many of the gems in his collection have now been scattered though seventy are still in Oxford.
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The Arthur Evans archive consists of the archaeological records and papers of Sir Arthur Evans (Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1884-1908), which he bequeathed to the Museum on his death in 1941. A large part of these relate to his excavations at the Bronze Age site of Knossos on Crete, carried out between 1900 and 1931.
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In 1900 the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851-1941) discovered a large number of clay tablets inscribed with mysterious symbols at Knossos on Crete. Believing he had discovered the palace of King Minos, together with the Minotaur's labyrinth, Evans dubed the inscriptions and the language they represented as 'Minoan'.
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Arthur John Evans (July 8, 1851 - July 11, 1941), was the son of Sir John Evans, a paper manufacturer and amateur archaeologist of Welsh descent. Having inherited his father's interest in archaeology, Arthur became curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 1884.
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Sir Arthur John Evans (8 juli 1851 - 11 juli 1941) was een Engelse archeoloog. Hij werd geboren te Nash Mills. Hij verwierf bekendheid door zijn opgraving van het paleis van Knossos.
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