Daniel Théodore Schlumberger (19 December 1904 – 21 October 1972) was a French archaeologist and Professor of

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at the

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and later

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Biography

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

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

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