# Arthur Evans

> He bought a hillside in Crete and dug up an entire lost civilization. Evans named the Minoans, cracked their scripts, and gave Bronze Age archaeology a shape it still holds.

*British archaeologist and scholar (1851-1941)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1851-07-08
- **Died:** 1941-07-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Arthur John Evans was born 8 July 1851 in Britain. In the late 1890s he learned of earlier digs at Knossos - started in 1877 by Minos Kalokairinos, shut down by Ottoman authorities after three weeks - and used private money to purchase the site outright. He began excavating in 1900. What he unearthed forced a rethinking: the structures and artifacts didn't fit Mycenaean Greece, so Evans proposed a distinct, older culture, which he called Minoan. He also identified and named two Cretan scripts, Linear A and Linear B, plus an earlier pictographic system. He died 11 July 1941, three days after his ninetieth birthday.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 55.0 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.5 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Academics, #Academic, #United Kingdom, #Europe, #19th Century

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