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middle of the nineteenth century. Ussher’s findings were so incontestable that his dates were printed in the margins of Bibles for the next few centuries. He is still remembered for precisely dating the flood to 1656 b.c. and the Creation to 6 p.m., Saturday, 22 October 4004 b.c.
References
Parry, G. 1995. The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(1828–1884)
Born into an aristocratic Russian family as the son of Czar Nicholas I’s nationalist ideologue, Aleksei Sergeevich Uvarov promoted archaeological study and helped to organize scholarly associations of archaeologists in the Russian Empire of the nineteenth century. He helped to found the Russian Archaeological Society (in 1864), the first archaeological congress (in 1869), and the Historical Museum in Moscow.
In the 1850s, he excavated burial mounds around Moscow and Vladimir and at the site of the ancient Greek city of Olbia in the Chersonese. In 1877, he excavated the Upper Paleolithic site of Karacharovo on the Oka River. He was regarded as a dilettante by modern scholars of archaeology, but he greatly helped to establish the study of archaeology in Russia.
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