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Clarence Stanley Fisher

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Fisher died in Jerusalem. His papers, formerly housed at the Albright Institute, Jerusalem, are held in the archives of the American Schools of Oriental Research at
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excavations, the site of the ancient city of Megiddo. Megiddo is known for its historical, geographical, and theological importance, especially under its Greek name
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Through Time, Across Continents: a hundred years of archaeology and anthropology at the University Museum
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Fisher was the moving spirit in the founding of the Dar el-Awlad, Jerusalem, the Home for Children.
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Also in 1925, Fisher was appointed professor of Archaeology in the
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Oriental Institute Communications 4, University of Chicago Press
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Clarence Stanley Fisher was born on August 17, 1876, in
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Glueck, Nelson. "Clarence Stanley Fisher in memoriam",
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Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
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there and in Palestine and undertook excavations at
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jerusalem
Palestine
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
Near Eastern archaeology
George Reisner
Dendera
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
Tel Megiddo
Armageddon
Oriental Institute
University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
P.L.O. Guy
American Schools of Oriental Research
Boston University
The Excavation of Armageddon
Archived
Wayback Machine
Categories
1876 births
1941 deaths
20th-century American archaeologists
Scientists from Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Tel Megiddo

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