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Pierre Demargne

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According to Wikipedia, Pierre Demargne was a French historian and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Demargne went to school at l'École normale supérieure, where he took and passed the agrégation de lettres exam. He conducted his first research in Anatolia, more specifically in the south coast of Turkey. In 1951, he initiated a series of archaeological excavations at the ancient capital of Lycia, Xanthos, which was occupied from the 7th century BCE by the Lycians, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines for more than a thousand years. His discoveries from Xanthos, including monumental and funeral architecture and inscriptions, were a decisive step in our understanding of ancient Lycian civilization today.

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