Lady Hester Stanhope
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title:
Lady Hester Stanhope
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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists". Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer.
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British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Hester_Stanhope
date created:
2003-07-27T13:49:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:17:56Z
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