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Sir
Gardner Wilkinson
Portrait of Gardner Wilkinson, pioneer egyptologist, c. 1863
Born(1797-10-05)5 October 1797
Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England
Died29 October 1875(1875-10-29) (aged 78)
Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales
NationalityBritish
Known forEgyptology
SpouseCaroline Lucas

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (5 October 1797 – 29 October 1875) was an English traveller, writer and pioneer egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British egyptology".

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Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (5 October 1797 – 29 October 1875) was an English traveller, writer and pioneer egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often...

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John Wilkinson may refer to: John Denison (MP) (John Wilkinson, c. 1758–1820), British MP for Wootton Bassett 1796–1802, for Colchester 1802–1806, and...

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Amarna

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a Halaf period archaeological tell.) English Egyptologist Sir John Gardner Wilkinson visited Amarna twice in the 1820s and identified it as Alabastron...

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List of Egyptologists

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Wilbour (American, 1833–1896) John Gardner Wilkinson (British, 1797–1875) Richard H. Wilkinson (American, born 1951) Toby Wilkinson (British, born 1969) Hilary...

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Medinet Habu king list

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complete scene including the cartouches of the kings was published by John Gardner Wilkinson in 1837, followed by Champollion and Lepsius. All the 19th-century...

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List of burials in the Valley of the Kings

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nearby areas. The numbering system was established by John Gardner Wilkinson in 1821. Wilkinson numbered the 21 tombs known to him (some of which had...

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Valley of the Kings

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the French Consul-General and a great rival of Belzoni and Salt. John Gardner Wilkinson, who lived in Egypt from 1821 to 1832, copied many of the inscriptions...

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Cavtat

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Croatia, Servia and Bulgaria- page 247 Dalmatia and Montenegro by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson Notizie Istorico-Critiche Sulla Antichita, Storia, e Letteratura...

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Battle of Pelusium

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Volume I, Book II. D. Midwinter. pp. 246–250. Herodotus Amasis. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1837). Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians: including...

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Epidaurum

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Greek-English Lexicon, word λᾶας (laas). Dalmatia and Montenegro by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson Notizie Istorico-Critiche Sulla Antichita, Storia, e Letteratura...

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Zerzura

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reference to Zerzura is in an 1835 account by the English Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson, based on a report by an Arab who said he had found the oasis while...

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Labyrinth of Egypt

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Labyrinth, including brief reports by Howard Vyse and John Shae Perring (1842) and John Gardner Wilkinson (1843). In 1843, the Prussian Egyptologist Karl Richard...

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Athenian Revolution

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Chronology in Chaos By Emmet John Sweeney. Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. The History of Herodotus:...

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Achaemenid Empire

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Translated by George Rawlinson; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. John Murray. p. 77 (Chp. 86). Waldemar Heckel (2006). Who's who in...

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TT71

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visited already early. In the first half of the nineteenth century, John Gardner Wilkinson, Robert Hay and J. Wild copied scenes, although the decoration was...

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Menes

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different dates for the era of Menes, or the date of the first dynasty: John Gardner Wilkinson (1835) – 2320 BC Jean-François Champollion (Published posthumously...

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Bosporus

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by George Rawlinson; Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Sir John Gardner Wilkinson. London: John Murray. p. 77. Öztürk 2011, pp. 28–32. "The Bosphorus, with...

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Sitre

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tomb was already described by Karl Richard Lepsius (tomb 13) and John Gardner Wilkinson (tomb 19) The tomb may have been commissioned by her son Seti I...

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The Babylonian Marriage Market

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88 Herodotus, George Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson, and Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. Histories (New ed. London: John Murray, 1862), 262. Hart, "The Politics...

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Samannud

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presence of a large Christian population at the time. In 1843, John Gardner Wilkinson described it as a place of some size, with the usual bazaars of...

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Trimithis

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55 mi × 0.93 mi). Bernardino Drovetti described the site in 1821. John Gardner Wilkinson, who saw it in 1825, was the first to record its modern name, as...

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1837 in archaeology

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Rillaton Gold Cup found. Pietroasele Treasure found in Romania. John Gardner Wilkinson - Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. Theodore M. Davis...

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TT391

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earliest one in South El-Assasif. It was first discovered in 1820 by John Gardner Wilkinson, Robert Hay and James Burton, then by Karl Richard Lepsius; it was...

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Mysteries of Osiris

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Isis and Osiris , §15.). According to the British Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), in holy cities with an Osirian tomb such as Diospolis...

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