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Birth certificate registration 31 March 1852. Superintendent Registrar's District: Liverpool; Registrar's District: Mount Pleasant; Birth address: 20 Bedford Street, South Liverpool.
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From this period Bent concentrated particularly on archaeological and ethnographic research. The years 1883-1888 were devoted to investigations in the Eastern Mediterranean and
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Some of Bent’s original notebooks held in the archive of the Hellenic Society, London, and unpublished, have now been digitized and are available on open access.
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denounced this view, and claimed that a non-African culture built the original structures. Modern archaeologists now agree that the city was the product of a
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James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) Bent of Baildon House,
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Mabel Bent, who had contributed by her skill as a photographer and in other ways to the success of her husband's journeys, published in 1900
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The majority of Bent's collections (hundreds of artefacts but relatively few on display) is to be found in the
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The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893
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he studied the ancient history of the country, its physical features and actual condition. On the
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At the time of Bent's death in 1897, the couple resided at 13 Great Cumberland Place, London, and
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civilization; he and his wife returned to England via Persia (Iran), being introduced to Shah
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The Zimbabwe Culture: Ruins and Reactions by Gertrude Caton-Thompson Cass, 1971
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and other magazines and reviews; his investigations on the Cycladic island of
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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
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archipelago over the winters of 1882/3 and 1883/4 culminated in Bent's
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merchants. In 1895-1896, he examined part of the African coast of the
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Loubser, Jannie H. N. (1989). "Archaeology and early Venda history".
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country (1893–1894), and during this and later journeys in southern
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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coast in 1894-1895, he visited ruins which he identified with the
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See, e.g., J.T. Bent, Notes on Prehistoric Remains in Antiparos.
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The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art
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Bent now visited at considerable risk the almost unknown
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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influence. While on another journey in South Arabia and
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are of note. In 1889, he undertook excavations in the
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An 1885 travel guide to Keos (Zea), an excerpt from
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Bent, A Visit to the Northern Sudan. 232: 42: 1097:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society 814:Bent explored the island of Socotra with 509:"William Bent 1764-1820 | Nat Gould" 1042:19th-century English non-fiction writers 911: 585: 209:Theodore Bent receiving visitors at the 204: 99: 753: 715: 14: 1019: 316:In 1893, he investigated the ruins of 977:Works by or about James Theodore Bent 539:Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell 188:Genoa: How the Republic Rose and Fell 929: 719:(1978). "Pastoralism and Zimbabwe". 1037:19th-century British archaeologists 424:The Archaeological Museum, Istanbul 380:Southern Arabia, Soudan and Sakotra 24: 367:(1896–1897), Bent was seized with 25: 1113: 952: 861:The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles 805:, 1896, Vol. 8 (4) (Oct), 335-53. 684:, 1889, Vol. 52 (46) (Jul), 71-6. 330:The Sacred City of the Ethiopians 194:. The couple's researches in the 1087:Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford 1082:English male non-fiction writers 1077:People educated at Repton School 993: 947:. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 943:Dictionary of National Biography 899: 836:Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum 568:(2nd ed.). Longmans, Green. 299:The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland 1005:(site devoted to their travels) 874: 853: 841: 838:, May 1899, Vol. II. No. 1, 12. 825: 808: 795: 782: 747: 709: 696: 687: 674: 669:The Journal of Hellenic Studies 400:The Victorian and Albert Museum 1047:19th-century English explorers 721:The Journal of African History 657: 627: 591: 555: 529: 515: 501: 492: 440:The Hellenic and Roman Library 436:The Royal Geographical Society 385: 307:Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher 13: 1: 892: 565:The Life of Giuseppe Garibald 416:Harris Museum and Art Gallery 320:and other places in northern 297:. Bent described his work in 986:Works by James Theodore Bent 959:Works by James Theodore Bent 933:"Bent, James Theodore"  442:, Senate House, London, UK; 126: 7: 992:(public domain audiobooks) 968:Works by Mrs. Theodore Bent 847:Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 706:(London, 1885, Chapter 16). 430:, Cape Town, South Africa; 243:Journal of Hellenic Studies 10: 1118: 849:Plants of the World Online 602:. Longmans, Green, and co. 598:Bent, J. Theodore (1885). 562:Bent, J. Theodore (1882). 551:(463): 200. 19 March 1881. 469:; one such specimen being 455:The Natural History Museum 408:The Natural History Museum 192:Life of Giuseppe Garibaldi 733:10.1017/S0021853700016431 449: 432:The Great Zimbabwe Museum 418:, Preston, UK. Overseas: 291:Robert McNair Wilson Swan 88: 65: 50: 41: 34: 803:The Geographical Journal 639:by J. Theodore Bent and 485: 428:The South African Museum 1062:South African explorers 922:Encyclopædia Britannica 263:Naser al-Din Shah Qajar 233:Archaeological research 1072:English travel writers 1067:English archaeologists 1052:Writers from Liverpool 930:Carr, William (1901). 682:The Fortnightly Review 615:Cite journal requires 396:The Pitt Rivers Museum 313:African civilization. 218: 166:In 1877, Bent married 149:Wadham College, Oxford 105: 832:Journal of Malacology 820:The Island of Socotra 653:: 204–231. July 1886. 328:and others. His book 208: 103: 917:Bent, James Theodore 647:The Quarterly Review 541:by J. Theodore Bent" 404:Royal Botanic Garden 281:. Bent believed the 211:Dilmun burial mounds 1057:Explorers of Arabia 444:The British Library 406:, Kew, London, UK; 109:James Theodore Bent 36:James Theodore Bent 871:. ("Bent", p. 23). 471:Echidnopsis Bentii 422:, Athens, Greece; 301:(1892). 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Index

Theodore Bent

Liverpool
London
British

explorer
archaeologist
author
Baildon
Bradford
Yorkshire
Repton School
Wadham College, Oxford
Breweries
Sir John Bent
Liverpool
Mabel Hall-Dare
Italy
Greece
San Marino
Aegean

Dilmun burial mounds
Bahrain
Sutton Hall
Macclesfield
Anatolia
Antiparos
Bahrein Islands

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