J.O. Kinnaman J.O. Kinnaman John Ora "J.O." Kinnaman (February 23, 1877 – September 7, 1961) was an American biblical scholar and biblical archaeologist. Born in Bryan, Ohio, Kinnaman graduated from Tri-State College, Indiana in 1894, and received his Ph.D. in Archeology from the University of Rome in 1907. He then accepted a teaching position at Benton Harbor College, where he would be later be made Dean. Kinnaman was one of the 20 people to be on the expedition led by Howard Carter that discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, and the last remaining survivor of the expedition. He would later pursue
Tomb of Payava Tomb of Payava The Tomb of Payava is a Lycian tall rectangular free-standing barrel-vaulted stone sarcophagus, and one of the most famous tombs of Xanthos. It was built in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, for Payava who was probably the ruler of Xanthos, Lycia at the time, in around 360 BC. The tomb was discovered in 1838 and brought to England in 1844 by the explorer Sir Charles Fellows. He described it as a 'Gothic-formed Horse Tomb'. Payava, who is named in the inscriptions, is only known from this tomb. The tomb is a particularly fine example of a common Lycian