Sir Arthur Evans

(noun)

An early twentieth century British archaeologist. He is most famous for excavating the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete and discovering the Minoan civilization that flourished in the Mediterranean from 1700 to 1100 BCE.

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Examples of Sir Arthur Evans in the following topics:

  • The Minoans

    • The ancient sites on the island of Crete were first excavated in the early 1900s by British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans.
    • Evans excavated the site of Knossos, where he discovered a "palace."
    • The many rooms of the "palace" at Knossos were so oddly shaped and disordered to Evans that they reminded him of the labyrinth of the Minotaur.
    • Following the destruction of the first palaces in approximately 1700 BCE, the Minoans rebuilt these centers into the palaces which were first excavated by Sir Arthur Evans.

  • The Neopalatial Period

    • Following the destruction of the first palaces in approximately 1700 BCE, the Minoans rebuilt these centers into the palaces which were first excavated by Sir Arthur Evans.

  • Minoan Architecture

    • When Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at Knossos, not only did he mistakenly believe he was looking at the legendary labyrinth of King Minos, he also thought he was excavating a palace.

  • MacArthur's Leapfrogging

    • MacArthur's air forces countered in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 2-5, 1943).
    • MacArthur had presented Elkton III, his revised plan for taking Rabaul before 1944, on 12 February 1943.
    • The next day, MacArthur watched the landing at Nadzab by paratroops of the 503rd Parachute Infantry.
    • MacArthur eventually caught the Japanese off balance and cut off Japanese forces in the Wewak area.
    • Left to right: Mr Frank Forde (Australian Minister for the Army); General Douglas MacArthur; General Sir Thomas Blamey; Lieutenant General George C.

  • Photography during the Great Depression

    • Prominent photographers at the time included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange , Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, Edward Steichen, Gordon Parks, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Doris Ulmann, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, and Russell Lee, among several others.
    • Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks.

  • Deploying Evidence

    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth (played here by actor Benedict Cumberbatch) was a master of deploying evidence to successfully nab his foes.

  • Defining Evidence

    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes (played here by actor Benedict Cumberbatch), only proceeded forward with criminal accusations when he knew he had a solid body of evidence to indicate a particular criminal.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • One Soviet precondition for a declaration of war against Japan was an American recognition of Mongolian independence from China and a recognition of Soviet interests in the Manchurian railways and Port Arthur as well as deprivation of Japanese soil (such as Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) to return to Russian custody since the Treaty of Portsmouth.
    • Also present are USSR Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (far right); Field Marshal Alan Brooke, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham, RN, Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles Portal, (standing behind Churchill); George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff and Fleet Admiral William D.

  • Yalta's Legacy

    • These members included: Arthur Greenwood; Sir Archibald Southby, 1st Baronet; Sir Alec Douglas-Home; James Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 3rd Earl of Ancaster; and Victor Raikes.

  • The Minoans

    • The term "Minoan" was coined by Arthur Evans after the mythic "king" Minos.