Mellaart, James

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Name (Hebrew)
מלארט, ג'יימס
Name (Latin)
Mellaart, James
Name (Arabic)
ميلارت، جيمس
Other forms of name
Mellaart, J. (James)
Mellart, Dzh. (Dzheĭms)
Mellart, Dzheĭms
Date of birth
1925-11-14
Date of death
2012-07-29
Field of activity
Turkey--Antiquities
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1925
Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 112258510
Wikidata: Q1069362
Library of congress: n 50007197
Sources of Information
  • Drevneĭshie t︠s︡ivilizat︠s︡ii Blizhnego Vostoka, 1982:title page (Дж. Мелларт = Dzh. Mellart) colophon (Джеймс Мелларт = Dzheĭms Mellart)
  • Earliest civilizations of the Near East, 1965.
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1925; Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology)
  • OCLC, Aug. 28, 2015(hdg.: Mellaart, James; usage: James Mellaart, J. Mellaart)
  • Telegraph WWW site, Aug. 7, 2012(James Mellaart; b. Nov. 14, 1925, London; d. July 29, 2012; ranked among the most controversial archaeologists of the 20th century after claiming to have uncovered priceless royal artefacts plundered from Dorak, near the ancient city of Troy, which he said had been missing since the site was first excavated in the 1920s)
  • His Earliest civilizations of the Near East, 1965.
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