British East India Company soldier, explorer and amateur archaeologist
For other people named Charles Masson, see Charles Masson (disambiguation).
The Stupa Nb.2 at Bimaran, where the Bimaran reliquary was excavated. Drawing by Charles Masson.
Charles Masson (1800–1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier, independent explorer and pioneering archaeologist and numismatist. He was the first European to discover the ruins of Harappa near Sahiwal in Punjab, now in Pakistan. He found the ancient city of Alexandria in the Caucasus (modern Begram) dating to Alexander the Great. He unlocked the now-extinct script known as Kharoshthi.[1]
At the time of the 1838 First Anglo-Afghan War, Masson had spent more time in Afghanistan than any other British subject. He was a minority voice critical of the invasion and accurately predicted it would be a disaster for the British Empire.[2]
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of fever on the return journey. His travels were published in 1841. CharlesMasson, formerly of the East India Company, resided in Baluchistan, Afghanistan...
Penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2013-05-10. Horace Hayman Wilson, CharlesMasson, Ariana Antiqua: a Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Coins...
of 5 January 1900 as a work into which he had "put his soul". Critic CharlesMasson, who reviewed it for Art et Decoration, wrote: "There is in that man...
Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. When it was found by the archaeologist CharlesMasson during his work in Afghanistan between 1833 and 1838, the casket contained...
a specialist on the archaeology of Gandhara and the collections of CharlesMasson, and a numismatist specialising in Asian coins. Errington grew up in...
of its most well-known structures is the Great Bath of Mohenjo-Daro. CharlesMasson – First European explorer of Harappa Mohenjo-daro Mehrgarh Ganeriwala...
Victorias player CharlesMasson was charged with manslaughter after Cornwall player Owen McCourt died of a head wound sustained in a brawl. Masson was found...
Paul Masson (1859 – October 22, 1940) was an early pioneer of California viticulture known for his brand of Californian sparkling wine. Masson emigrated...
tribes of Hephthalite origin. 19th-century British Indian explorers, CharlesMasson and Henry W. Bellew, also suggested that there was a direct relationship...
the Indus civilisation are those of CharlesMasson, a deserter from the East India Company's army. In 1829, Masson traveled through the princely state...
East India Company's army, James Lewis, better known by his pseudonym CharlesMasson and Richard Porter aka "John Brown", who tried to persuade him that...
his conscience by confessing to his wife and the victim's husband. CharlesMasson, a married advertising executive and father of two children, has an...
and foundation of the other parts, since one builds them upon it. — CharlesMasson 1669:31 [The bass part is] the foundation of harmony. — Gioseffo Zarlino...
discovered, and in the same period, Chinese travelogues were translated. CharlesMasson, James Prinsep, and Alexander Cunningham deciphered the Kharosthi script...
Müller, p. 531 British Museum IOC.282; Errington, Elizabeth (2017). CharlesMasson and the Buddhist Sites of Afghanistan. London: British Museum Research...
McCourt came to his death by a blow from a hockey stick in the hands of CharlesMasson during the progress of a game of hockey played in the Victoria rink...
hint of the design lies in an 1832 sketch and short description by CharlesMasson, a British soldier, which was published in 1842, the year the tomb was...
archaeological evidence concerning Alexandria of the Caucasus was gathered by CharlesMasson (1800–1853), providing insight into the history of that lost city. His...
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