Despite opposition from Benjamin Jowett and other classicists, this man was able to effect serious change once he became curator of the Ashmolean Museum.  
Despite opposition from Benjamin Jowett and other classicists, this man was able to effect serious change once he became curator of the Ashmolean Museum.  His later researches were summarized in 1933's Jarn Mound, though at that time he had still failed to solve the puzzle that would eventually be solved by John Chadwick and Michael Ventris.  He had first come across the problem after unearthing a series of 3,000 clay tablets.  FTP, name this man who excavated around the ruins of Knossos, the archaeologist who discovered the Minoan civilization.
Despite opposition from Benjamin Jowett and other classicists, this man was able to effect serious change once he became curator of the Ashmolean Museum.  
Arthur Evans