Stevenson, Sara Yorke (1847–1921)
Stevenson, Sara Yorke (1847–1921)
American archaeologist and Egyptologist. Born Sara Yorke in Paris, France, 1847; died 1921; granted ScD, University of Pennsylvania, the 1st ever conferred on a woman by that institution; m. Cornelius Stevenson, 1870.
Came to US (1862); sent to Egypt for the American Exploration Society to investigate archaeological work in Nile Valley (1898); was curator of the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; writings include Maximilian in Mexico and The Book of the Dead.
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