Alexander Cunningham
British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893) · Scientists · Died at 79
Major-General Sir Alexander Cunningham was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India.
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In 1861, he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India.
