Daniel Théodore Schlumberger (19 December 1904 – 21 October 1972) was a

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

archaeologist and Professor of

Near Eastern Archaeology Near Eastern archaeology is a regional branch of the wider, global discipline of archaeology. It refers generally to the excavation and study of artifacts and material culture of the Near East from antiquity to the recent past. Definition The ...

at the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

and later

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Biography

After having been invited by Khan Nasher in the 1960s, he conducted fieldwork at Ay Khanum in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is borde ...

as Director of the Délégation Archéologique Française, discovering ruins and artifacts of the

Hellenistic period In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in ...

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Daniel Schlumberger (Obituary: ''The Times'', 25 October 1972)
Retrieved on 2010-04-18. His written works were included posthumously in '' The Cambridge History of Iran'' (1983). He was an older brother of Jean Schlumberger.

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University of Strasbourg faculty Princeton University faculty French archaeologists Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 1972 deaths 1904 births People from Mulhouse 20th-century archaeologists Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy {{academic-bio-stub