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Alexander Cunningham.
British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)
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About Alexander Cunningham
Major-General Sir Alexander Cunningham was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Sappers who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India.
Everything about Alexander Cunningham →- Occupation
- explorer, art historian, archaeologist, numismatist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 23, 1814
- Died
- November 28, 1893