George Roger Edwards (October 11, 1914 – June 9, 2009) was an American archaeologist and curator for the

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Biography

He was born in

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, on October 11, 1914, to George Edwards and Alice Heathcote. He attended Lewis High School in

, then earned an

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from

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in 1933 and a

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from

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in 1937. He earned a

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in archaeology from the

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in 1939. Edwards became the assistant curator for the

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. He moved to Philadelphia in 1950 as

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of classical archaeology and an assistant curator for the

. Edwards excavated at several sites including

Gordium Gordion ( Phrygian: ; ; or ; ) was the capital city of ancient Phrygia. It was located at the site of modern Yassıhüyük, about southwest of Ankara (capital of Turkey), in the immediate vicinity of Polatlı district. Gordion's location at ...

in Turkey in 1951 and

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in Cyprus in 1954. He rose to the position of full professor and retired in 1980 with the title curator emeritus. He died on June 9, 2009, in

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Publications

An Ivory
(1961) *Corinth: results of excavations conducted by the American school *The Gordion Campaign of 1958: Preliminary Report (1959)
The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery
(1984)

References

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