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The Find of a Lifetime Sylvia L. Horwitz

The Find of a Lifetime By Sylvia L. Horwitz

The Find of a Lifetime by Sylvia L. Horwitz


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A biography of the mercurial and controversial man who made one of the greatest discoveries in archaeological history - the Palace of Minos at Knossos.

The Find of a Lifetime Summary

The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos by Sylvia L. Horwitz

The story of the dapper Victorian gentleman whose obsessions led to one of the most breathtaking discoveries in the history of archaeology: the Palace of Minos at Knossos. As the brilliant curator of the famed Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Sir Arthur Evans was already a famed prehistorian and archaeologist before, at the age of fifty, he assumed his most celebrated role: as the discoverer of the ancient civilization of Crete - a civilization that, until then, had only been dimly recalled in the myth of Theseus. Less than a month after the first spadeful of earth had been turned on the site at Knossos, Evans discovered a labyrinthine palace that was clearly the seat of a fabulously wealthy and powerful culture. Sylvia Horwitz's biography brings us both the legend and the truth of this extraordinary man as well as the story of one of archaeology's most momentous and thrilling discoveries.

About Sylvia L. Horwitz

Sylvia L. Horowitz was educated at Case-Western Reserve University and has spent most of her life since 1946 abroad. She was the founder of the Overseas School of Rome and has worked on several digs in North Africa and the Middle East. She now lives in New York City.

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GOR001707350
9781842122211
1842122215
The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos by Sylvia L. Horwitz
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
20010517
288
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