biography
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Marshall, Sir John Hubert
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1876–1958)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and administrator, born in Chester, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied Classics at Cambridge and excavated in Greece, before being appointed director-general of archaeology in India (1902–31). He reorganized the Indian Archaeological Survey, and worked at the city of Taxila in the Himalayan foothills (1913–33), and at the Buddhist religious centres of Sanchi and Sarnath. His excavations at Mohenjo-daro and Harappa in the Indus Valley in the 1920s revealed for the first time the antiquity of Indian civilization. He was knighted in 1914. |
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