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Died. Sir Arthur Evans. 90, the British archeologist whose excavations in Cretan pasturelands uncovered the wholly forgotten Minoan civilization and pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...
...Arthur Evans was the man who made the discoveries of Minoan art in Crete that affected the whole conception of early Grecian history. His collection for the most part was not acquired from other connoisseurs nor from dealers but was gathered during a lifetime of personal search. He picked up his first gem in a bazaar in Bosnia on a youthful walking trip, found others during seven years of research on the Eastern Adriatic shores and in travels around Sicily. Most of them, however, came in the period of his digging in Crete, where he even found them worn...
...gems cover a wide range of style, from the primitive Minoan scenes through the Hellenistic and Roman carvings of elegant gods and realistic portraits...
...Staatliche Museum) is to be seen putting on lipstick while her subjects do calisthenics. In ancient China, a 4th Century procuress braids a student courtesan's hair. Ladies of antique Greece are taking a shower bath while below them a pair of frizzled jades gossip in ancient Minoan. Next in this progress of lady Narcissists is Greece's Helen of Troy sizzling her hair on a curling stick and smirking at the Greek fleet coming to retrieve her. Further on, Rome's Julius Caesar (British Museum bust) looks sourly at a rolled rug from whose...
...Minoan Age," Professor Ferguson, Emerson...