Nikolay Veselovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikolay Veselovsky

Russian orientalist

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1848

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1918

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovsky (??????? ???????? ???????????, November 1848 - 30 March 1918) was a Russian archaeologist and orientalist, specializing in the history and archaeology of Central Asia.
Born in Moscow, schooled in Vologda, studied at Saint Petersburg State University.
Reader in 1877, extraordinarius in 1884, ordinarius from 1890.
He was the first to excavate Afrasiab, the oldest part of Samarkand, as well as several notable kurgans in Southern Russia and Ukraine, notably the Solokha, Kostromskaya and Maikop kurgans.
Some of the finest examples of Scythian art, including the Solokha comb, were discovered by Veselovsky and his team.