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Edith Eccles

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Edith Eccles (born 1910 in Liverpool; died 1977) was a British classical archaeologist who did work at British School at Athens after studies at what is now Royal Holloway, University of London.[1] She worked with Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete in the 1930s.[2] During the 1930s she was a friend of Mercy Money-Coutts who worked and travelled with her in Greece and beyond.[3] She remained active after the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that ultimately ended her life.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Profile at Brown University
  2. ^ Nanno Marinatos (30 January 2015). Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos. I.B.Tauris. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-78076-811-3.
  3. ^ Elizabeth Schofield, Mercy Money-Coutts Seiradaki (1910-1993)