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For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

~Michael Rostovtzeff

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For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

~Michael Rostovtzeff

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Biography

Nationality: Ukrainian

Type: Historian

Born: November 10th, 1870

Died: October 20th, 1952

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