About Hester Stanhope

Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was a British adventurer, writer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her excavation of Ascalon in 1815 is considered the first to use modern archaeological principles, and her use of a medieval Italian document is described as "one of the earliest uses of textual sources by field archaeologists". Her letters and memoirs made her famous as an explorer.

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Hester Stanhope

noblewoman; British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839)

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explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, writer

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Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Born

1776, March 12, 1776

Died

1839, June 13, 1839, June 23, 1839

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