The archaeologist SirArthur Evans is most famous for his excavations concerning which civilisation?
Arthur Evans Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was an English 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. Evans continued Heinrich Schliemann's concept of a Mycenaean civilization, but found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan, from the structures and artifacts found there and throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was also the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing. Although not
John Evans (archaeologist) source on her father. John Evans (archaeologist) Sir John Evans (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English archaeologist and geologist. John Evans, son of the Rev. A. B. Evans, was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire. He was for many years an industrial manager working for his uncle and later father-in-law John Dickinson (1782–1869) at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, and was also a distinguished antiquary, archaeologist and numismatist. Evans was president of the following societies and institutions: He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1864 and for twenty years (1878–1898) he was treasurer of the