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Arthur Evans
Sir Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist who excavated the Bronze Age palace at Knossos on Crete from 1900 and partly reconstructed it in concrete. He named the civilisation he uncovered 'Minoan' after the legendary King Minos, devised its chronology and identified the scripts Linear A and Linear B. He was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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