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Arthur Evans
said
Civilization in its higher form today, though highly complex, forms essentially a unitary mass.
— Reported as an epigraph in Fielding H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (W. B. Saunders Co., 1917), p. 15
Arthur Evans
British archaeologist and scholar (1851–1941)
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- Fame54.6
- Momentum0.6
- United Kingdom rank#245
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Lived 1851–1941, aged 90United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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 ni…
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