Quote of the day
Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave.
Warren K. Moorehead
Born: March 10, 1866
Died: January 5, 1939 (aged 72)
Bio: Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology'; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio.
Known for:
- The stone age in North America (1910)
- Primitive man in Ohio (1892)
- The Cahokia Mounds (1923)
- Exploration of the Etowah Site in Georgia (1932)
- The Merrimack archaeological survey (1931)