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Evans (SIR ARTHUR JOHN an English)

SIR ARTHUR JOHN, an English archæologist, born in Nash Mills, Herts, in 1851. He was educated at Oxford and in Germany. He spent 10 years in travel in eastern Europe, especially in the Balkans. From 1884 to 1908 he was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. In 1893 he undertook investigations in Crete, and these resulted in the discovery of remarkable archæological remains, which gave a new aspect to the history of prehistoric Eu- He wrote "Cretan Pictographs and Præ-Phoenician Script" (1896); "Scripta Minoa" (1909). He was knighted in 1911.

Latin rope. historian, who flourished about A. D. 360.

His abridgement of the history of Rome is written in a perspicuous style.