Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FREng (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.

Quotes

• Civilization in its higher form today, though highly complex, forms essentially a unitary mass. It has no longer to be sought out in separate luminous centers, shining like planets through the surrounding night. Still less is it the property of one privileged country or people. Many as are the tongues of mortal man, its votaries, like the Immortals, speak a single language. Throughout the whole vast area illumined by its quickening rays its workers are interdependent and pledged to a common cause.
  • Reported as an epigraph in Fielding H. Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine (W. B. Saunders Co., 1917), p. 15

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Arthur Evans on Wikipedia