The most terrible things end, at last.
James Theodore Bent Quotes
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
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| Birth: | 30th March, 1852 |
| Death: | 5th May, 1897 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Explorer |
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James Theodore Bent was an English explorer, archaeologist and author. He graduated from Wadham College, Oxford in 1875. In 1889, he undertook excavations in the Bahrein Islands of the Persian Gulf, and found evidence that they had been a primitive home of the Phoenician race. He made the first detailed examination of the Great Zimbabwe. He described his work in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland. In 1893, he investigated the ruins of Axum and other places in northern Ethiopia, which had previously made known in part by the researches of Henry Salt and others. He wrote several books include: A freak of freedom, Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell, Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Early voyages and travels in the Levant, The sacred city of the Ethiopians, and Southern Arabia(novel).
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