One of the first objects that visitors encounter in Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) in Manhattan is a forgery.

"This exhibition has been organized by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford"--page 132. How do ...

ON December 17 Sir Arthur Evans, at a meeting of friends and colleagues held at the Society of Antiquaries, was presented with a portrait bust of himself in marble in recognition of his services to ...

ARTHUR JOHN EVANS was born on July 8, 1851, at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. The son of John Evans (afterwards Sir John Evans, K.C.B.), the most eminent prehistoric archaeologist of his day, he ...

Ever since 1900, when Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans first discovered the hundreds of clay tablets in the ruins of King Minos’ great palace at Knossos, Crete, scholars have been puzzling over a ...

THE publication of the last volume of the great archæological work, Palace of Minos, by Sir Arthur Evans, brings to a close what must rank as the most complete record of the largest single ...

ARCHAEOLOGY is an inexact science, as Sir Arthur Evans, a flamboyant early practitioner, knew. However painstaking the digging process, an excavator can always promote an extravagant theory under the ...

One of the most fascinating chapters of ancient history tells about the fabled island of Crete, whose rulers were thalassocrats (lords of the sea) and whose beautiful, bare-breasted priestesses romped ...

Some three decades ago—an eye blink in archaeological time—I looked out over the ancient ruins of Knossos in Crete, accompanied by a bus-load of tourists and a voluble guide. Here was a magnificent ...