Adolphe Noël des Vergers
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Grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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| Born | 2 June 1805 Paris |
| Died | 2 January 1867 (aged 61) Nice |
| Occupation | Archaeologist Historian Etruscologist Epigrapher. |
Joseph-Marin-Adolphe Noël des Vergers (2 June 1805 – 2 January 1867) was a 19th-century French archaeologist, historian, etruscologist, orientalist and epigrapher.
He was the son of Marin Noël des Vergers, député of the Yonne department.
Very young he is passionate about science and became university assistant of the chemist Baron Louis Jacques Thénard. Also passionate about traveling he went to Italy, Greece, the Near East, where he learned Arabic and translated the book Une Vie de Mohamed by Abou'Iféda. At the request of Louis-Philippe's government, He went to Sicily to trace the history of Islamic occupation. Between 1850 and 1856, he began excavations on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea with the help of an Italian archaeologist Alessandro François, enabling him to discover the port of Populonia. In 1857, they discovered 19 untouched burial chambers near Vulci, known since under the name François Tomb whose frescoes evoke the warlike scenes taken from the Iliad by Homer which for the first time told the life of the Etruscans.
Little known in France despite a prize at his name created by the Institut de France, his History of the Etruscans is still very well known in Italy.
He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (67th division).
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