Evans Synonyms

British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Arthur Evans
  2. sir arthur john evans
United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Herbert McLean Evans

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Evans Sentence Examples

  • A line of road was constructed across the mountains as far as the Macquarie river by the surveyor, Mr Evans, and the town of Bathurst laid out.

  • Oxley now turned aside - led by Mr Evans's report of the country eastward - crossed the Arbuthnot range, and traversing the Liverpool Plains, and ascending the Peel and Cockburn rivers to the Blue Mountains, gained sight of the open sea, which he reached at Port Macquarie.

  • In 1893, however, Arthur Evans observed some signs on scripMinot,an seal-stones from Crete which led him to believe that a hieroglyphic system of writing had existed in Minoan times.

  • This monumental work seems to date from the close of the Middle Minoan age, but has been re-used for interments at successive periods (Evans, Archaeologic, 1906, p. 136 sqq.).

  • Evans, coming on the scene in 1893, travelled in succeeding years about the island picking up trifles of unconsidered evidence, which gradually convinced him that greater things would eventually be found.

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