Louise Schofield
Louise Schofield (* 20th century) is a British classical archaeologist and mycenaeologist .
Schofield was the British Museum's curator for the Bronze Age and Geometric Period in Ancient Greece for thirteen years . Schofield mainly works on the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures and has also worked on archaeological projects in Rhodes , Corfu and Turkey . She has led an excavation on the Gheralta Plateau in northern Ethiopia that has discovered an ancient Sabaean gold mine.
Fonts (selection)
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The Mycenaeans. The British Museum Press, London 2007, reprint 2013, (excerpts online) .
- German translation: Mycenae. History and myth. Translated from the English by Dieter Prankel. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2009.
- with W. Vivian Davies (Ed.): Egypt, the Aegean and the Levant: Interconnections in the Second Millennium BC The British Museum Press, London 1995.
Web links
- The American University at Rome : Short biography
- Dalya Alberge: Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of Sheba's wealth , in: The Observer , February 12, 2012. - Reprinted on the American University at Rome website
- Literature by and about Louise Schofield in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Schofield, Louise |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British Classical Archaeologist and Mycenaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |