Cyriacus of Ancona or Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli was a humanist and antiquarian who came from a prominent family of merchants in Ancona, a maritime republic on the Adriatic coast of the Italian Peninsula. He has been called the "Father of Archaeology":
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Portrait of Cyriacus, relief carving[1][2]
The oldest surviving drawing of the Parthenon, an ancient copy of the original by Cyriacus of Ancona, is found in Manuscript Hamilton 254, a fifteenth-century volume preserved in the Berlin State Library
Great Pyramid of Giza. Its true nature was rediscovered by Cyriacus in 1435
Parthenon. Its true nature was rediscovered by Cyriacus in 1436
Delphi. Its true nature was rediscovered by Cyriacus in 1436
Cyriacus's vocation for researching evidence of the past was born in 1421 from observing the Arch of Trajan in Ancona.
Apollonia (Illyria), rediscovered by CyriacusAcademics born in the 1390s 6
About this person
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1391 to 1452 · aged 61
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