Definition of Sir Mortimer Wheeler

1. Noun. Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir Mortimer Wheeler

Sir John Ross
Sir John Suckling
Sir John Tenniel
Sir John Vanbrigh
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Lancelot
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Martin Frobisher
Sir Matthew Flinders
Sir Mortimer Wheeler (current term)
Sir Noel Pierce Coward
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Sir Oliver Lodge
Sir Patrick Manson
Sir Paul Gavrilovich Vinogradoff
Sir Peter Brian Medawar
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Ustinov
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Ralph David Richardson
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Richard Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Owen

Literary usage of Sir Mortimer Wheeler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Capital (1888)
"One such person is Sir Mortimer Wheeler who has written a book called Five Thousand Years of Pakistan. His only justification, or excuse, ..."

2. Ancient Magan: The Secrets of Tell Abraq by Daniel T. Potts (2000)
"The days when Sir Flinders Pétrie, Sir Leonard Woolley or Sir Mortimer Wheeler presented themselves as 'the' excavator of a site, when in reality they had a ..."

3. Pakistan: A Country Study edited by Peter R. Blood (1996)
"... WHEN BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST Sir Mortimer Wheeler was commissioned in 1947 by the government of Pakistan to give a historical account of the new country, ..."

4. The People by J. L. Angel (1971)
"Sir Mortimer Wheeler. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co. MELLINK, MACHTELD J. 1965. Anatolian chronology. Pages 101—131, in Chronologies in Old World ..."

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