Alexander Cunningham
✓ Source-basedstableBritish army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)
ScientistsLived 1814 to 1893 · aged 79
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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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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. 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.
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Lived 1814 to 1893 · aged 79
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